{"id":4818,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/norman-brown-just-chillin\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"norman-brown-just-chillin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4818","title":{"rendered":"Norman Brown &#8211; Just Chillin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font size=\"4\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Norman Brown<br \/><\/font>\t<font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\">Just Chillin&#8217;<\/font><\/b><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">(Warner &#8211; 2002)<br \/> by Raymond Redmond<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">After four high-energy albums and years of almost constant touring, Norman Brown&#8217;s latest offering, <b>Just Chillin&#8217;<\/b>, is more of a laid-back project. The first two tracks, &#8220;The Feelin I Get&#8221; and &#8220;Just Chillin&#8221; are strong instrumentals, mixing Brown&#8217;s trademark guitar sound with well arranged horn accompaniment and lush arrangements. &#8220;Night Drive&#8221;, featuring <b>Rick Braun<\/b> is a sure smooth-jazz hit and the standout track on this release. <b>Miki Howard<\/b> puts in some nice vocal work on the sweet &#8220;Not Like You Do&#8221; as does newcomer <b>Debbie Nova<\/b> on the up tempo &#8220;Won&#8217;t You Stay&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Dancin in the House&#8221; is another fast paced piece with Benson-esque scatting and Brown&#8217;s fine fingering combined with a latin-influenced keyboard line. This is more of the old Norman Brown here. &#8220;In My Life&#8221; is another tastefully crafted song, combining a nice vocal chorus with Brown&#8217;s creative musicianship. The cover of Janet Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Lets Wait a While&#8221; is subtly performed and presented, doing it a quiet justice. Overall this is one of the better crafted smooth jazz releases to come out this year. Norman obviously took his time and &#8220;Waited a While&#8221; before releasing this one. Don&#8217;t you wait to go get a copy.     <\/font><\/p>\n<p>                <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Brown Just Chillin&#8217;(Warner &#8211; 2002) by Raymond Redmond After<\/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-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","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=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}