{"id":4527,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/barry-manilow-here-at-the-mayflower\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"barry-manilow-here-at-the-mayflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4527","title":{"rendered":"Barry Manilow &#8211; Here at the Mayflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"Right\" alt=\"Barry Manilow\" hspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/hereatthemayflower.jpg\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"\/><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"4\">Barry Manilow<br \/><\/font>  <font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Here at the Mayflower<br \/><\/font><\/strong>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\">(Concord &#8211; 2001)<br \/> by Matthew S. Robinson<\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Name-checking the sadly late Tito Puente and the sadly early Dave Koz, as  well as many of his older personas (a young girl named &#8220;Mandy&#8221; comes to  mind), Barry Manilow opens his latest career leg with a square block of  interestingly varied yet impressively interconnected stories. Playing like  Jimmy Stewart&#8217;s journal from &#8220;Rear Window,&#8221; Mayflower tells the tales of the  all too real residents of a mythical hotel. From the smooth jazz loving  lonelyheart to the long-time couple recalling their younger days, Manilow  peeps through &#8220;so many windows,; so many locks&#8221; and reveals sides of his  characters and of himself that are both familiar and novel.   <\/p>\n<p>From the uptempo  beats of the &#8220;Stairway to Paradise&#8221;-themed &#8220;Come Monday&#8221; and the gangster  swing of &#8220;Freddie Said&#8221; to  the &#8220;get up and dance&#8221; lilt of &#8220;Turn the Radio  Up&#8221; and the dramatic diction of &#8220;Talk to Me,&#8221; Manilow manifests manifold  mannerisms.  Which one is Manilow&#8217;s true voice is debatable. But in laying  bare an entire brick and stone edifice, Manilow allows us to look into  ourselves while hearing a variety of voices which fall gently and  comfortably on the ears, even as they pick away at the locks on our hearts.  <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">c. 2001, M. S. Robinson, ARR<\/font>                <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Manilow Here at the Mayflower (Concord &#8211; 2001) 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-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","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=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}