{"id":4892,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/doc-powell-life-changes\/"},"modified":"2012-07-12T19:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:02:59","slug":"doc-powell-life-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4892","title":{"rendered":"Doc Powell &#8211; Life Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/lifechanges.jpg\" alt=\"Doc Powell - Life Changes\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><span style=\"color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: large;\">Doc Powell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica;\"><strong>Life Changes<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: xx-small;\">(Samson &#8211; 2001)<br \/>\n by Ricky Miller <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana; font-size: small;\"> <em>Wow! <\/em>That&#8217;s it in a nutshell. The album starts off with the smooth, smoky title track &#8220;Life Changes&#8221;, definitely a smooth groove. &#8220;Brother to Brother&#8221; is a familiar tune, done with class and featuring <strong>Patrice Rushen<\/strong> on Piano. &#8220;It&#8217;s a guitar thang&#8221; features Powell on both lead and rhythm guitar, grooving with\u00a0<\/span><strong>Billy Preston<\/strong> on B-3 and <strong>Kirk Whalum<\/strong> on sax. &#8220;Your&#8217;s Unconditionally&#8221; is a 70&#8217;s smooth-jazz-ballad.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best tunes on the CD is a <em>Sweet<\/em> cover of the Caston-Wakefield tune &#8220;Tell Her Love Has felt The Need&#8221;. The Wurlitzer electric adds an old-school touch to the beautiful vocal performance by <strong>Ollie Woodson<\/strong> (formerly of the Temptations). Woodson also delivers a very soulful, gritty performance on <strong>Darrell Diaz&#8217;<\/strong> tune &#8220;For The Soul In You&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Doc says that this album &#8220;represents the settling-in of all that I am, it summarizes my life and my artistry&#8221;. There ARE NO bad tracks on this CD. If you ask me to choose my favorite, it will probably change from day to day, each listening revealing a new aspect or phrase in one of the tunes. Powell wrote or co-wrote eight of the tracks and produced all of them, so the success of this release will stand firmly on his shoulders. And it should be successful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Powell Life Changes (Samson &#8211; 2001) by Ricky Miller<\/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-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","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=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}