{"id":15725,"date":"2018-12-01T05:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=15725"},"modified":"2018-11-27T12:16:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:16:35","slug":"album-review-rose-ann-dimalanta-trio-its-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/01\/album-review-rose-ann-dimalanta-trio-its-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Rose Ann Dimalanta Trio \u2013 It\u2019s Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15726\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ra_dimalanta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ra_dimalanta.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ra_dimalanta-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ra_dimalanta-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>If you\u2019re the sort of music listener who thinks you don\u2019t like jazz but you do dig Steely Dan, then <i>It\u2019s Time<\/i> may be the ticket. Featuring the vocals of Rose Ann Dimalanta \u2013 formerly a member of Prince\u2019s band \u2013 is sleek, sexy and soulful. A slick (but not too slick) and urbane vibe characterizes the songs on <i>It\u2019s Time<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The band clearly has the chops to play intricate, complicated and knotty music; instead they take a straightforward approach that focuses on creating a smoky, sophisticated ambiance. The album has a late-night feel on many of its tracks, but playful, kinetic numbers like \u201c10 Miles to Empty\u201d are a bit more ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s lots of keyboards on this collection \u2013 acoustic piano, Rhodes and so forth \u2013 and that only reinforces the upscale feel of the arrangements. But despite the excellence of the players, it\u2019s Dimalanta\u2019s show. She\u2019s assured without being assertive, supple without sounding loose. The string synths on \u201cMeasure of a Man\u201d are a bit overemotive, but they work in the context of the song.<\/p>\n<p>Dimalanta sits out on the instrumental \u201cLatin Soul,\u201d but otherwise she\u2019s the undisputed star of this set. Some dated (yet undeniably tasty) synthesizers on \u201cMad run\u201d pull things back in the Steely Dan direction established in opening cut \u201cForever Day by Day.\u201d And while \u201cNo Goodbyein\u2019\u201d has a sort of slick, urban-soul Michael Jackson feel that\u2019s undermined by spoken-word breakdowns, it\u2019s a rare misfire on an otherwise solid album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re the sort of music listener who thinks you don\u2019t like jazz but you do dig Steely Dan, then It\u2019s Time may be the ticket. Featuring the vocals of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,49,51,65],"tags":[3648],"class_list":["post-15725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-rose-ann-dimalanta","cat-42-id","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\/15725","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=15725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15727,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15725\/revisions\/15727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}