{"id":4962,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/gerald-veasley-love-letters\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"gerald-veasley-love-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4962","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Veasley- Love Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"Right\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/loveletters.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Love Letters\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"\/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">  Gerald Veasley<\/font><br \/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\">  <b>Love Letters<\/b><\/font><br \/><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">   Heads-Up  <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, helvetica\">  Gerald Veasley delivers a winner with the release of Love Letters, described by the artist as &#8220;urban progressive.&#8221;  This release should firmly establish the Philadelphia-born musician as an innovator who brings a contemporary  voice to the bass as a lead instrument.  <\/p>\n<p>  Like his 1997 release <i>Soul Control<\/i>, <i>Love Letters<\/i> showcases Veasley&#8217;s talents as musician,  composer\/arranger and producer in a melding of styles. Playing his distinctive six-string bass as well as keyboards, he&#8217;s joined on the project  by saxophonists Grover Washington, Jr. and Eric Marienthal, plus guitarist Chieli  Minucci.  <\/p>\n<p>  Veasley shares producing and arranging credits on Love Letters with Richard Waller III  (who also plays or programs drums on several of the tracks). Seven of the album&#8217;s ten songs  were penned by the versatile bassist, including the easy-grooving title track and the disc&#8217;s  spacious and majestic opener, &#8220;Facing West.&#8221; &#8220;Be Sweet&#8221; was co-written and recorded with  saxophonist Chris Farr and keyboardist Bill Jolly, while Chieli Minucci&#8217;s sultry  &#8220;Hypnotize&#8221; and a funk-laden rendition of Donny Hathaway&#8217;s &#8220;Valdez In the Country&#8221;  round out the set.  <\/p>\n<p>  Among the many other musicians heard on Love Letters are keyboardists Mark Knox and  Michael Aharon, percussionist Leonard &#8220;Doc&#8221; Gibbs, and flutist Leslie Burrs.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p>    For more info, contact: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headsup.com\">Heads-Up Records<\/a>        <\/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\"><a href=\"http:\/\/JazzUSA.com\" target=\"_top\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Veasley Love Letters Heads-Up Gerald Veasley delivers a winner<\/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-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","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=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}