{"id":4516,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/av-head-jazz\/"},"modified":"2012-07-12T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T01:54:33","slug":"av-head-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"A\/V &#8211; Head Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: blue;\"> Head Jazz<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica;\"> A\/V<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: xx-small;\">(Label M &#8211; 2001)<br \/>\n by Matthew S. Robinson <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"> Slap on your big ol&#8217; 70&#8217;s headphones and get ready for a ride. Cozying up with Eddie Harris&#8217; &#8220;Silver Cycles,&#8221; Head Jazz takes your ears (and whatever may be between thme) on a hairpinned tour of contemporary jazz. A combination of a Magritte painting and Fellini film, Head Jazz leads listenrs down path after crooked in a never predictable but always fascinating and oddly rewarding series of twuists and turns, many of which are contained within the songs themselves. Yusef Lateef&#8217;s closing double-shot gives two divergent examples of this surprising sequencing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a Little Spanish Town&#8221; combines The City Service Quartet on old tyme vocal harmonies with Lateef&#8217;s burnished horn and &#8220;This Old Building&#8221; crashes a techno chopper into a gospel house party. The ever-eclectic Joe Zawinul&#8217;s &#8220;The Soul of a Village, Part 2&#8221; combines aviary samples with a zydecoed hoedown hora that requires Jimmy Scott&#8217;s definition of silky &#8220;Day by Day&#8221; to recover. From David &#8220;Fathead&#8221; Newman&#8217;s choral-introduced &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Always Get What You Want&#8221; to Hubert Laws Traffic-y &#8220;Equinox,&#8221; Head Jazz ranges from low sparks to hi heeled numbers. This is not an album to be listened to. It is an album to be absorbed and explored.<\/p>\n<p>c. 2001, M. S. Robinson, ARR <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head Jazz A\/V (Label M &#8211; 2001) by Matthew S.<\/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-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5625,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}