{"id":4872,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/regina-belle-lazy-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"regina-belle-lazy-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4872","title":{"rendered":"Regina Belle &#8211; Lazy Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/lazyafternoon.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" alt=\"Regina Belle\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"0\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Regina Belle<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Lazy Afternoon<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Peak &#8211; 2004) <br \/> by Ray Redmond<\/font><br \/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">    Regina Belle has a voice that oozes warmth and familiarity like a gentle breeze. Her sweet falsetto harkens back to a time when love ballads were the norm, and vocals were cherished. On <i>Lazy Afternoon<\/i> she goes a different direction with a collection of jazz standards, torch songs and golden classics. Accompanied by a crew of veteran musicians that includes <b>Christian McBride, Perri, Ray Fuller<\/b> and <b>George Duke<\/b> (who plays and produces) Belle delivers an album that&#8217;s good listening in addition to being technically beautiful. <i>For The Love of You<\/i> has a nice prelude with Regina reminiscing with the Perry sisters before belting out the Harold Melvin classic. <i>Moanin&#8217;<\/i> is a bluesy track that fits her strong style. The real gem here is the Brazilian track <i>Corcovado<\/i> where sings in english, then whispers the interludes in Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>  The broadway tunes <i>Lazy Afternoon<\/i> and <i>If I Ruled The World<\/i> are soulful and well delivered. Her interpretation of the classic <i>Fly Me To The Moon<\/i> is a little disconcerting at first, but grows into a pretty nice rendition. Each song on this CD is carefully crafted and delivered to specification,  and who can ignore that distinctive <i>Duke<\/i> touch that makes the flow and backbone of each piece so strong? But&#8230; somehow it&#8217;s beauty without depth, Love without tenderness. Simply stated, Regina Belle has put out a soulful, sensitive album that somehow lacks the overall <i>soul<\/i> that we expect from her. Good riding music but not a memorable release.        <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regina Belle Lazy Afternoon(Peak &#8211; 2004) by Ray Redmond Regina<\/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-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","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=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}