{"id":3756,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/dotsero-west-of-westchester\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"dotsero-west-of-westchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"Dotsero &#8211; West of Westchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/westofwestchester.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Dotsero\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"\/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">  <a name=\"Dotsero\">Dotsero<\/a><\/font><br \/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\">  <b>West of Westchester<\/b><\/font><br \/><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">  (Peak Records  \u0096 2000)<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" height=\"6\" align=\"absmiddle\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/.gif\" width=\"4\"\/> by John Barrett  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" color=\"#000000\">              The sax stirs like aspoon, making a brew that&#8217;s smooth and   tangy. Clacking rhythm starts &#8220;Westchester Lady&#8221;, helped by an   old-stylesynth.  (It sounds like Kraftwerk in the\u0091Seventies.)  Guitars bounce   through thetheme, and Stephen Watts parries \u0096 his soprano is tougher than   most.  His tenor is also a treat, walkin&#8217; proud on&#8221;Lodo Mojo&#8221;.  He struts,   but not like ashowoff; Dave Watts answers in rippling wah-wah licks.  The   harsh honks of &#8220;Shoulder Step&#8221; blendwith airy calm keyboards \u0096 works   great. And &#8220;Two of a Kind&#8221; has plenty of atmosphere: crashing waves,   bottomlessbass, Morse code synth, and a lonely horn on a darkened street.    This is the sound, and  this is the group.   <\/p>\n<p>              The disc stands outfor two reasons:  good production, andthe tone   of Steve&#8217;s horn.  He blowsstrong on &#8220;Latest Night&#8221;, a tiny growl on the edge   of his notes.  Dave has his moment &#8220;When We&#8217;re Together&#8221;,where sitar swoops   follow Montgomery octaves. (On &#8220;Staring at the Ceiling&#8221;, he&#8217;s joined by the   Rippingtons&#8217; RussFreeman; their strings converge as the sax groans.)  The   encore is a slab of cool funk, where icy keys meet a deadlybass.  The horn   doesn&#8217;t scream; its softauthority is sufficient.  It is called&#8221;This Is How   It Should Feel&#8221; \u0096 and I certainly agree.   <\/font><\/p>\n<p>                <center>      <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/center><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dotsero West of Westchester (Peak Records \u0096 2000) by John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}