{"id":4336,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/braxton-brothers-both-sides\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"braxton-brothers-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4336","title":{"rendered":"Braxton Brothers  &#8211; Both Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/bothsides.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Braxton Brothers \" align=\"left\" border=\"1\"\/><b><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Braxton Brothers<br \/><\/font><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:12pt\">Both Sides<\/font><\/b><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">(Peak &#8211; 2002)<br \/><\/font><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\"> by S.H. Watkins, Sr.<br \/><\/font>  <br \/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  The <i>Braxton Brothers<\/i> have been playing together (Nelson on bass and Wayne on saxophone) since they joined the school band in the fourth grade.  <i>Both Sides<\/i>, their third CD, shows growth and maturation as musicians. Their blend of smooth-jazz and R&amp;B groove is typical of some of the younger jazz musicians out there today, and it&#8217;s a nice change from your &#8216;regular&#8217; smooth fare. Influences of <i>Stanley Clark&#8217;s<\/i> bass and <i>Grover&#8217;s<\/i> horn are immediately evident on tracks like the funky UAC targeted <i>Stop Sayin&#8217; That<\/i> and the very upbeat <i>Do What You Feel<\/i>. Smooth-jazz regular <b>Chris Camozzi<\/b> adds his frets to the Hip-Hop ballad <i>What Did I Say<\/i> and the driving <i>Whenever I See You<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>  All of the tracks on the CD were written or co-written by a Braxton, and all are full and complete&#8230; no throwaways on this disc.  Some of the musc here can be classified as &#8216;neo-soul&#8217; more than smooth-jazz, but the line blurs so much that as long as it sounds good the name doesn&#8217;t matter. And it does indeed sound good. Other Braxton Brothers releases include <i>Steppin&#8217; Out (1996)<\/i> and <i>Now and Forever<\/i> (1999.) I have both in my own library, but this is definitely their best effort to date.          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braxton BrothersBoth Sides(Peak &#8211; 2002) by S.H. Watkins, Sr. The<\/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-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","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=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}