{"id":4504,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/eric-reed-happiness\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"eric-reed-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4504","title":{"rendered":"Eric Reed &#8211; Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/Happiness.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"\/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana,Helvetica,\">  Happiness<\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Eric Reed<\/font><br \/><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">(Nagel Heyer &#8211; 2001)<br \/> by Sidney Bechet-Mandela  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">  The bad news is that this record ends a string of wonderful piano based records released by Reed.  The good news is that he&#8217;s taken what he&#8217;s learned from Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and has applied it music written for a small big band that features some of his friends from the LCJO, including saxophonist Wes &#8220;Warm Daddy&#8221; Anderson, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and trumpeter Marcus Printup.<\/p>\n<p>  It would be unfair to lump this music as Marsalis music without Wynton, because while it is formatted like one of Wynton&#8217;s group, the tunes don&#8217;t seem nearly as stiff as what Wynton can sometimes deliver, and the music doesn&#8217;t seem to have as much Ellingtonia as can be loaded into Marsalis&#8217; music. But, maybe it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the same players, some of that Marsalis music is unavoidable, especially in the voicing of the horns.  This is hardly a bad record, but the unabashed breeziness of his past recordings, &#8220;Pure Imagination,&#8221;  and &#8220;Manhattan Melodies.&#8221;  <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>    <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness Eric Reed(Nagel Heyer &#8211; 2001) by Sidney Bechet-Mandela 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-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","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=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}