{"id":4417,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/jango-closer-to-home\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"jango-closer-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4417","title":{"rendered":"Jango &#8211; Closer To Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">  <font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/closertohome.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Closer to Home\" border=\"0\" align=\"Left\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"2\"\/>  Closer to Home<\/font><br \/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">  <a name=\"Jango\">Jango<\/a><\/font><br \/><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">  (Samson Music &#8211; 2000)<br \/> by Ray Redmond<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">  Due out this July, <i>Closer to home<\/i> is a great follow-up to their debut release <i>Dreamtown<\/i>. The CD starts off kickin&#8217; with <i>Soul Casserole<\/i>, a retro-funk flavored instrumental with overtones of the group&#8217;s Steely Dan and Tom Scott influences.<\/p>\n<p>  Let me take a moment here to again state that &#8220;Jango does Steely Dan as well as Steely Dan&#8221;, maybe better. How better? Rather than try to imitate Steely Dan, they create entirely new music from the point of view that the average Steely Dan <i>Fan<\/i> takes, creating great jazz that <i>Feels<\/i> like Steely Dan.  This is even more aparrent when you hear <i>Joyful Caravan<\/i>. The vocal stylings, the way the entire song is laid out and performed is classic Steely Dan. <\/p>\n<p><i>\tSweet and Lowdown<\/i> is a smooth, lush tune&#8230;maybe too smooth for smooth jazz radio, but it is one of the better tracks. The smoothness continues through the rest of the CD, ending with a second helping of <i>Soul Casserole<\/i>. The title cut <i>Closer to Home<\/i> will be played on NAS radio, because it follows the &#8216;formula&#8217;. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, this track is a GOOD example of smooth jazz embodied, with Steve Nieves&#8217; saxophone sweetly reminding us of why Kenny G gets so much air play.<\/p>\n<p>  As with all albums, some tracks are better than others.  Although  a few tunes sound a little too much like Steely Dan, give Jango credit for remaining creative and interesting, something that&#8217;s got to be hard to do when you start out sounding like another great group.    <\/font><\/p>\n<p>            <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closer to Home Jango (Samson Music &#8211; 2000) by Ray<\/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-4417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417","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=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}