{"id":4366,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/positive-flow-can-u-feel-it\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"positive-flow-can-u-feel-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4366","title":{"rendered":"Positive Flow – Can U Feel It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CanCan U Feel It?<\/strong><\/font>
Positive Flow <\/strong><\/font>
(Shanachie – 2004)
by Ray Redmond<\/font>
Can U Feel It?<\/i> is a very varied experience. On the opening track, The City Streets<\/i>, vocalist Donna Gardier<\/b> and the gang attain a positively Incognito-ish<\/i> state, reminiscent of the early Maysa<\/i> days. Trumpeter Colin Steele<\/b> adds some nice horn licks, as he does on the title track which is another Nu-Jazz \/ Neo-Soul experience. Although Natural<\/i> has some clever fluting from Gary Barnacle<\/b>, it is too rooted in “Bass and Drum” house music that it fails to attain true jazz status in my mind.<\/p>\n

Spoken word artist Breis<\/b> appears throughout the CD, most notably on the retro-tinged 50,000 ft and Rising<\/i> where his emotive words are nicely juxtaposed with Gardier’s airy song. Another spoken word artist, Zena Edwards<\/b>, is featured on Dance of the Soul<\/i>. This is my favorite track on the CD and makes up for some of the more shallow-but-catchy tracks on the CD. Jesse Reuben Wilson<\/b> does a marvelous job here as on all of the rest<\/i> of the CD, holding up most (if not all) of the instrumentation. Positivity<\/i> is another track that caught my attention with a good lyric delivery and, well… it just has that feel<\/i> that makes a good song.<\/p>\n

The intent of the CD comes across as a neo-last-poets-without the edge backed by Was Not Was<\/i>. I like it, but I’ve been known to be shallow on occasion so take it with a grain of salt. Wilson and Gardier have a good formula here and should grow better with each passing release. If you like the whole Incognito, Nu-Jazz, neo-Soul thing (or smooth Jazz) you’ll feel the Positive Flow. <\/cfinclude><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can U Feel It? Positive Flow (Shanachie – 2004) by<\/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-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","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=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}