{"id":11718,"date":"2016-11-08T05:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T10:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11718"},"modified":"2016-11-06T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:08:34","slug":"album-mini-review-scott-bradlees-postmodern-jukebox-the-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/08\/album-mini-review-scott-bradlees-postmodern-jukebox-the-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Scott Bradlee&#8217;s Postmodern Jukebox &#8212; The Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pomo_jukebox.jpg\" alt=\"pomo_jukebox\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11719\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pomo_jukebox.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pomo_jukebox-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01JGKMVC4&#038;asins=B01JGKMVC4&#038;linkId=122ee81791e3a484ea7da81906daab0a&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <strong>Buddy Rich<\/strong>, <strong>Either\/Orchestra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On paper, it seems like an inspired concept: assemble a top-notch band that can play anything, bring together a wildly varied collection of contemporary songs from a variety of genres, and recast those songs in the styles of yesteryear (hot jazz, swing, etc.). And it works just as well on record. PMJ \u2013 a rotating cast headed by Bradlee \u2013 is nothing if not prolific: since debuting with a 2013 digital EP, the collective has released literally hundreds of songs via weekly online postings. Now smartly picked up by a major label, PMJ presents a kind of best-of showcasing their creative breadth. There are lots of winners here, but one of the most effective is a reading of the <strong>Celine Dion<\/strong> hit, <i>Titanic<\/i>&#8216;s \u201cMy Heart Will Go On.\u201d Recast here as a doo-wop extravaganza with the vocals of <strong>Mykal Gilmore<\/strong>, it positively sizzles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Buddy Rich, Either\/Orchestra On paper, it seems like an inspired concept: assemble a top-notch band that can play anything, bring together a wildly varied collection of contemporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[2873,2874],"class_list":["post-11718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-postmodern-jukebox","tag-scot-bradlee","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11720,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718\/revisions\/11720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}