{"id":4673,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/paul-taylor-hypnotic\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"paul-taylor-hypnotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4673","title":{"rendered":"Paul Taylor &#8211; Hypnotic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Paul Taylor\" height=\"140\" hspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/hypnotic.jpg\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"140\" border=\"1\"\/><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"4\">Hypnotic<br \/><\/font>  <font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Paul Taylor<br \/><\/font>  <\/strong><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\">(Peak &#8211; 2001)<br \/> by Ricky Miller<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">As a long-time fan of the Rippingtons, I have indirectly followed Paul Taylor&#8217;s career through the years, and so have gotten each of his albums as they came out. I liked them all, and <em>Hypnotic<\/em> keeps the string going. The title song has been all over the airwaves the last few months, especially on the smooth jazz and R&amp;B stations. My favorite is the entrancing <em>Tuesday Afternoon<\/em>, co-written and produced by jazz-fusion-legend <strong>Jeff Lorber<\/strong> who plays and produces a number of the tracks on this album. <em>Sunshine<\/em> features vocals and guitar work by <strong>Kurt Jackson<\/strong> (he also wrote it). This is a nice tune but it seem just a little bit out of place on this release. <\/p>\n<p><em>P.T. Cruiser<\/em> was probably written as a driving song, because it&#8217;s got that smooth freeway flow to it. <em>Flight 808<\/em> is another killer song featuring longtime associate Dino Esposito and guitarist <em>Brian Monroney<\/em>. If anything, this release leans even more towards urban styled, cool funk than ever before, although it has definite fusion roots. This CD will get the most play as smooth jazz, I think.  <strong>Russ Freeman<\/strong> (Mr. Rippingtons <em>Himself<\/em>) is one of the executive producers, so the tinges of Rippingtons that you hear here and there are inevitable, and enjoyable. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\"><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>  <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypnotic Paul Taylor (Peak &#8211; 2001) by Ricky Miller As<\/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-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","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=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}