{"id":5722,"date":"2012-04-25T01:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2012-04-25T01:18:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:18:01","slug":"kirk-whalum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/kirk-whalum\/","title":{"rendered":"KIRK WHALUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5723\" title=\"KIRK-WHALUM-M-Review-JanFeb2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KIRK-WHALUM-M-Review-JanFeb2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KIRK-WHALUM-M-Review-JanFeb2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KIRK-WHALUM-M-Review-JanFeb2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>K<\/strong><strong>IRK WHALUM<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Romance Language<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>kirkwhalum.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With <em>Romance Language<\/em> Kirk Whalum and his brother Kevin have created a musical mash note to one of their favorite albums, 1963\u2019s mood-music landmark <em>John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman<\/em>. Kirk, an acclaimed smooth-jazz saxophonist with nearly two dozen albums to his credit, handles Coltrane\u2019s parts, blowing in his reed as he might his lady\u2019s ear. Kevin, meanwhile, plays lover-man extraordinaire in the Hartman mode, singing in hushed, come-hither tones. Joining them is a cast of simpatico sidemen\u2014players who caress each note and keep things gently rolling. Coltrane and Hartman\u2019s original album contained just six songs, but the Whalums add versions of four latter-day slow jams, just in case date night lasts a little longer than planned.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIRK WHALUM Romance Language kirkwhalum.com With Romance Language Kirk Whalum and his brother Kevin have created a musical mash note to one of their favorite albums, 1963\u2019s mood-music landmark John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Kirk, an acclaimed smooth-jazz saxophonist with nearly two dozen albums to his credit, handles Coltrane\u2019s parts, blowing in his reed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,3185,3431,3433,3432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}