{"id":5027,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/kerry-strayer-septet-mentor\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"kerry-strayer-septet-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=5027","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Strayer Septet  &#8211; Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/mentor.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" alt=\"Kerry Strayer Septet\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Kerry Strayer Septet<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Mentor<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Rhombus &#8211; 2004) <br \/> by Paula Edelstein<\/font><br \/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">    If you&#8217;re listening for great Kansas City swing and bebop, give <i>Mentor<\/i> by the Kerry Strayer Septet a hot listen! Joined by guest saxophonist G<b>ary Foster<\/b>, this ensemble brings a fresh perspective to songs written by Clare Fischer, Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, and Ray Noble. Also included are several originals penned by Foster such as &#8220;Saturday 10AM,&#8221; &#8220;Sweet Lips,&#8221; and &#8220;Warne-ing&#8221; with each adding its own special flavor to this special mix.<\/p>\n<p>  The CD pays homage to Gary Foster for his \u0091mentoring&#8217; during Strayer&#8217;s quest to become a professional musician. Topping the many stellar highlights is Strayer&#8217;s excellent romp through Parker&#8217;s &#8220;Yardbird Suite,&#8221; with Gary Foster on alto saxophone. Both multi-faceted musicians really re-activate this jazz standard for not only alto sax but for brass, clarinet and baritone sax solos.    <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">     <br \/>    Reprinted with permission of&#8230;<br \/><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundsoftimelessjazz.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/sotjlogo.gif\" width=\"540\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>     <\/font><\/p>\n<p>        <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry Strayer Septet Mentor(Rhombus &#8211; 2004) by Paula Edelstein If<\/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-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","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=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}