{"id":4994,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/marc-copland-softly\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"marc-copland-softly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4994","title":{"rendered":"Marc Copland &#8211; Softly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">    <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"\/><\/font><\/b><strong><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">Softly<\/font><br \/><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Marc Copland<br \/><\/font><\/strong><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\"><br \/><\/font><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/coplandsoftly.jpg\" alt=\"Softly\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\"\/><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Pianist Marc Copland&#8217;s trio (including bassist Gary Peacock and  drummer Bill Stewart) is joined by three of the finest horn players today: Michael  Brecker, Tim Hagans, and Joe Lovano on this refreshing release.<\/p>\n<p>  The players are guided in their improvisations by Copland&#8217;s unique sense of touch, as well  as his love of and respect for group interplay and spontaneity. The leader&#8217;s thoughtful  arrangements leave plenty of room for on-the-spot input from the players. The results of  this approach can be heard throughout the album, as for example in the full-group chorus  on &#8220;Softly,&#8221; the tags to &#8220;Blue&#8221; and &#8220;What&#8217;s Going On&#8221;, and  the trio selections (which, like the choice of the trio tunes themselves, were executed on  the spur of the moment).<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;<a name=\"cmore\"\/>My long association with the players on this album was the  key,&#8221; says Copland. &#8220;I prefer to have players with their own sound, with the  ability to listen as well as play, and who can leave their egos at the door so that they  are able to contribute unselfishly to the group feel. What tends to happen in that kind of  atmosphere is that each player gets a chance to play and to interact with the others  freely, so that the players support one another and everybody gets to make a strong,  individual contribution. Mutual respect will do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Mutual respect and strong individual contributions from the players, as well as a unique  sense of touch, harmony, and rhythm from the leader, are indeed the hallmark of this  exciting new release.<\/font><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <\/font>    <\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\"\/>\n<hr align=\"center\"\/><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftlyMarc CoplandPianist Marc Copland&#8217;s trio (including bassist Gary Peacock and<\/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-4994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994","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=4994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}