{"id":4316,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/benny-green-and-russell-malone-bluebird\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"benny-green-and-russell-malone-bluebird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"Benny Green and Russell Malone &#8211; Bluebird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/bluebird.jpg\" width=\"115\" alt=\"Benny Green and Russell Malone\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"0\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Benny Green and Russell Malone<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong> Bluebird<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Telarc &#8211; 2004) <br \/> by Matthew Robinson<\/font><br \/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  Opening with a groove that is part Ray Charles, part Vince Guiraldi, piano man Benny Green reenters his relationship with guitarist Russell Malone through the appropriately titled &#8220;Reunion Blues.&#8221; After a duet of Cole Porter&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s Alright with Me&#8221; that careens from uptempo to almost out of control, Malone&#8217;s chugging strum and bright melody help bring Stevie Wonder&#8217;s &#8220;You Are the Sunshine of My Life&#8221; smoothly back to earth. <\/p>\n<p>  Green&#8217;s spacious solo arrangement of &#8220;Who Can I Turn To?&#8221; keeps the classic tune fresh and interesting, and Malone&#8217;s own &#8220;Flowers for Emmett Till&#8221; is a memorial soliloquy to this young martyr that smacks gently of James Taylor. The duets of &#8220;Love for Sale&#8221; and Charlie Parker&#8217;s title track find Green and Malone dropping notes among each other&#8217;s Blues rhythms, demonstrating a well-honed sympatico between two talented young artists.<br \/><font size=\"1\"><br \/>  \u00a9 2004, M. S. Robinson, ARR<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">       <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benny Green and Russell Malone Bluebird(Telarc &#8211; 2004) by Matthew<\/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-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","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=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}