{"id":4305,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/bobby-mcferrin-beyond-words\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"bobby-mcferrin-beyond-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4305","title":{"rendered":"Bobby McFerrin &#8211; Beyond Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><b><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Bobby McFerrin<br \/><\/font><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Beyond Words<\/font><\/b><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\" color=\"black\">(Blue Note &#8211; 2002)<br \/> by Carmen Miller<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"000000\">  Bobby McFerrin&#8217;s new CD <i>Beyond Words<\/i> is just that. Teamed up with piano great <b>Chick Corea<\/b>, drummer <b>Omar Hakim<\/b>, flautist <b>Keith Underwood<\/b> and his son <b>Taylor McFerrin<\/b> on beatbox I expected this to be a rollicking ride through a realm of percussive possibilities and resonances. What I got was an experiment in airy, fluffy, light, well, airy-ness; and unfortunately I&#8217;m not really a big <i>Yanni<\/i> fan. I am not sure where Bobby is going with this but I seem to have gotten a little lost along the way. Perhaps teaming up with Chick Corea took some of the pressure off, causing McFerrin to fall into Corea&#8217;s &#8216;mold&#8217; instead of adding Corea to the McFerrin mix. <\/p>\n<p>The compositions are pretty, McFerrin and Corea playing off of one another beautifully, but we&#8217;ve already got <i>Al Jarreau<\/i>for that. I think McFerrin is venturing more into natural language and chanting here which will appeal to a large audience, but not to the audience that got him noticed in the first place. If you like Yanni, or some of Chick&#8217;s more esoteric recordings then this CD is for you.  <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p>                <center>      <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/center><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby McFerrinBeyond Words(Blue Note &#8211; 2002) by Carmen Miller Bobby<\/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-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","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=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}