{"id":3776,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/deanna-witkowski-wide-open-window\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"deanna-witkowski-wide-open-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3776","title":{"rendered":"Deanna Witkowski &#8211; Wide Open Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/wideopenwindow.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" order=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Deanna Witkowski\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Deanna Witkowski<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Wide Open Window<\/strong><\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\"><br \/>(Khaeon &#8211; 2003)<br \/> by S.H. Watkins, Sr.<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Chicagoan <b>Deanna Witkowski<\/b>&#8216;s new release <i>Wide Open Window<\/i> is a luscious stew of straight ahead and bop with a touch of Afro-Caribbean flavor. Joined by <b>Donnie McCaslin<\/b> on sax, <b>Jonathan Paul<\/b> on bass and drummer <b>Tom Hipskind<\/b>, Witkowski starts the CD out working her magic on Cole Porter&#8217;s <i>All Through the Night<\/i>. <i>Just One Of Those Things<\/i>, another of the three Cole Porter covers, is a joyous romp that is highlighted by her back-and-forth soloing with bassist Paul and drummer Hipskind.  <i>Speak My Name<\/i> is one of five original songs and shows her prowess as a composer.   Deanna studied Afro-Cuban Jazz with Cuban piano masters Chucho Vald\u00e9s and Hilario Duran in the 1990&#8217;s, and it peeks out on <i>New August Tune<\/i>, featuring some fine solo work from McCaslin. Mind you, this is NOT an Afro-cuban CD!, but rather a straight ahead CD that often borders on bop, but with an overall A-C influence. <\/p>\n<p>On the final track <i>Sanctus<\/i> Deanna adds an element of vocals that adds well to the overall CD, a good closer. In this world of fast-buck smooth jazz and sampling, it&#8217;s good to hear that there are still some young, talented artists that write and appreciate jazz the way is should be.  <\/font>              <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deanna Witkowski Wide Open Window(Khaeon &#8211; 2003) by S.H. Watkins,<\/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-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}