{"id":4904,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/barbara-montgomery-little-sunflower\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"barbara-montgomery-little-sunflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Montgomery &#8211; Little Sunflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/littlesunflower.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" vspace=\"1\" alt=\"Barbara Montgomery\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\"\/><b><font size=\"4\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Barbara Montgomery<br \/><\/font>\t<font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\">Little Sunflower<br \/><\/font><\/b>  <font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">(Two Beans &#8211; 2002)<br \/> by Raymond Redmond<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  Oh what a difference a day makes. <b>Barbara Montgomery&#8217;s<\/b> last release <i>Dakini Land<\/i> was an inspired CD, showing her vocal capabilities and hinting at things to come&#8230; like hundreds more we get to hear each year. With her newest offering <i>Little Sunflower<\/i>, Barbara seems to have taken the next step. On &#8216;An Illusion&#8217; and &#8216;Idle Moments&#8217; her vocals are throaty and strong, showing growth in her vocal maturity and control. &#8216;As The Sun&#8217; is a cover of Freddie Hubbard&#8217;s &#8216;Little Sunflower&#8217; with lyrics she penned herself&#8230; Freddie would be proud.    The mood of this entire CD can only be described as warm and sultry. Barbara and the band merge into a single cohesive unit, her vocals accenting the music, the players accenting her phrases.Most of the tracks are originals, with a few Chick Corea tracks thrown in. She obviously likes Chick, her last CD being jammed full of Corea covers. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether the credit goes to Barbara, her co-producer <b>Don Lucoff<\/b>, to the band or to fate itself, but the mixture is just right here. This is <i>listening music<\/i>&#8230; that means you put it on repeat (or shuffle) and leave it on for a while. Barbara Montgomery seems to be on the right track.   <\/font>            <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Montgomery Little Sunflower (Two Beans &#8211; 2002) by Raymond<\/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-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","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=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}