{"id":3896,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/randy-johnston\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"randy-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3896","title":{"rendered":"Randy Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Randy Johnston\" height=\"140\" hspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/DetourAhead.jpg\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"140\"\/><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Detour Ahead<br \/><\/font>  <font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"4\">Randy Johnston<br \/><\/font>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\">(High Note &#8211; 2001)<br \/> by Dick Bogle<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Five-star soul-jazz brought to you by five star players who are currently the kings of that vernacular. This is leader-guitarist Randy Johnston&#8217;s second High Note date, and he brought along tenormen David &#8220;Fathead&#8221; Newman and Houston Person, organist Joey De Francesco and drummer Byron Landham. Person is heard only on the first cut, &#8220;Blues For Edward C.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>  Newman solos first on the 9-minute, 17-second piece. Person gets a nice taste, too, as do Johnston and De Francesco on this nice medium-tempo blues. Johnston&#8217;s fine ballad chops exercise on &#8220;A House Is Not A Home.&#8221; He embellishes the melody with great sensitivity. He turns on the heat with his rapid-fire work on &#8220;The End Of A Love Affair.&#8221; Other tunes include &#8220;They Long To Be Close To You,&#8221; &#8221; Two Step Snake,&#8221; &#8220;Detour Ahead&#8221; and &#8220;Dearly Beloved.&#8221;      <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\" face=\"verdana\">Reprinted with kind permission of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theskanner.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Skanner<\/a>.<\/font><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\"><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>  <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detour Ahead Randy Johnston (High Note &#8211; 2001) by Dick<\/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-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","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=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}