{"id":19135,"date":"2020-07-21T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=19135"},"modified":"2020-07-13T15:56:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:56:55","slug":"album-review-swingadelic-bluesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/album-review-swingadelic-bluesville\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Swingadelic &#8212; Bluesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19136\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/swingadelic-bluesville.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/swingadelic-bluesville.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/swingadelic-bluesville-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/swingadelic-bluesville-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>The point at which big band vocal jazz and r&amp;b meets is one I enjoy exploring. And so, too, does the aggregation known as Swingadelic. On the New York City swing orchestra\u2019s latest release, a wide net is cast, drawing from Willie Dixon, Mose Allison, Ray Charles, Doc Pomus, Duke Ellington and others, casting their work \u2013 whether it was originally intended that way or not &#8212; into the swing idiom.<\/p>\n<p>And it works, without fail. A number of the band members take turn at the vocal mic, and the entire proceeding is put together like a live performance. There\u2019s a bit of keyboard work here and there \u2013 subtle organ on Dixon\u2019s \u201cI Love the Life I Live,\u201d for example \u2013 but for the most part, it\u2019s big, bold and brassy most of the way. The tunes run the gamut from familiar (\u201cHarlem Nocturne\u201d) to little-known \u2013 including two band member originals \u2013 but in the capable hands of Swingadelic, everything sounds like a classic.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Charles\u2019 \u2018Mary Ann\u201d gets a rollicking, New Orleans jazz feel, and a tasty electric guitar solo to boot. Vocalist John Bauers makes no attempt to sing like Ray, but he nails the feel. The sexy and romantic \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Story, Morning Glory\u201d features some ace trumpet solo work and a lovely vocal by Vanessa Perea.<\/p>\n<p>Combining songs that date from the 1920s to the \u201860s, Swingadelic finds the commonality within various styles. On <i>Bluesville<\/i> they bend the songs to their cause, never breaking even one of them. A delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The point at which big band vocal jazz and r&amp;b meets is one I enjoy exploring. And so, too, does the aggregation known as Swingadelic. On the New York City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,49,60,65],"tags":[4251],"class_list":["post-19135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-rb","category-review","tag-swingadelic","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-60-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19135","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=19135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19137,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19135\/revisions\/19137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}