{"id":935,"date":"2011-05-11T23:11:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T21:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=935"},"modified":"2016-11-14T00:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T23:16:49","slug":"whitney-james-the-nature-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/whitney-james-the-nature-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney James &#8211; The Nature Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/whitney_james_nature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/whitney_james_nature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a>Reconozco que no es habitual que un(a) cantante sea santo de mi devoci\u00f3n; considero que el jazz vocal en la actualidad conlleva demasiadas connotaciones paralelas, e incluso ajenas, a la m\u00fasica y al jazz. As\u00ed que, cuando tengo oportunidad de descubrir novedades de jazz vocal, pongo un inevitable \u201cinter\u00e9s con reparos\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hace poco recib\u00ed el primer disco de una joven vocalista llamada Whitney James. Su portada y su t\u00edtulo me hicieron pensar en alguna estrategia de <em>marketing<\/em> para acercar a James al p\u00fablico de, por ejemplo, Diana Krall, y lo escuch\u00e9 con cierta reticencia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sin embargo, debo admitir que me he llevado una agradable sorpresa con este disco. Uno de los motivos principales (lo que me llam\u00f3 la atenci\u00f3n de esta grabaci\u00f3n en un principio) es la presencia de Ingrid Jensen, una trompetista de primera categor\u00eda que realza el aspecto instrumental de la grabaci\u00f3n con intervenciones m\u00e1s que destacables. Si no fuese mujer, no me cabe duda de que ser\u00eda bastante m\u00e1s popular.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">El tr\u00edo compuesto por Joshua Wolff, Matt Clohesy y Jon Wikan encaja perfectamente con la voz y el estilo de James; se nota que han tocado tiempo juntos. La cantante parece c\u00f3moda y se atreve con un repertorio centrado en <em>standards<\/em> que hay que afrontar con mucha clase si no se quiere caer en un jazz enclenque y bobalic\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">James hace lo que m\u00e1s me gusta en un cantante: canta la letra de forma convincente, interpretando tanto el aspecto musical como el literario. No tiene miedo a sonar cl\u00e1sica, no es obvia ni pretende imitar a nadie (y mira que hay precedentes) y hace de la naturalidad y de la expresividad sus mejores bazas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>The Nature Of Love<\/em> no revoluciona ni resulta genial, pero suena honesto, refinado y es una gran opci\u00f3n para introducir a cualquier mente impresionable en el mundo del jazz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Publicada inicialmente en <a href=\"http:\/\/undiamasundiscomas.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Un d\u00eda m\u00e1s un disco m\u00e1s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"mailto:the.abstract.truth@gmail.com\">Yahv\u00e9 M. de la Cavada<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Composiciones: <\/strong>\u201cTenderly\u201d; \u201cWhisper Not\u201d; \u201cA Timeless Place (The Peacocks)\u201d; \u201cLong Ago and Far Away\u201d; \u201cMy Love is You\u201d; \u201cThe Very Thought of You\u201d; \u201cHow Deep is the Ocean\u201d; \u201cBe Anything\u201d; \u201cIn April\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>M\u00fasicos: <\/strong>Whitney James (voz); Ingrid Jensen (trompeta y fiscorno); Joshua Wolff (piano); Matt Clohesy (contrabajo); Jon Wikan (bater\u00eda).<\/p>\n<p>Grabado en 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconozco que no es habitual que un(a) cantante sea santo de mi devoci\u00f3n; considero que el jazz vocal en la actualidad conlleva demasiadas connotaciones paralelas, e incluso ajenas, a la m\u00fasica y al jazz. As\u00ed que, cuando tengo oportunidad de descubrir novedades de jazz vocal, pongo un inevitable \u201cinter\u00e9s con<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/whitney-james-the-nature-of-love\/\">Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17891,5],"tags":[12651,12696,490,13,12415,15295,493,491,492,16099,77,16100,489,46],"class_list":["entry","author-autor1","post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-yahve-m-de-la-cavada","category-grabaciones","tag-cd","tag-grabaciones","tag-ingrid-jensen","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-en-espana","tag-jazz-en-espanol","tag-jon-wikan","tag-joshua-wolff","tag-matt-clohesy","tag-toma-jazz","tag-tomajazz","tag-tomajazz-toma-jazz","tag-whitney-james","tag-yahve-m-de-la-cavada"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101417,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/cesar-joaniquet-live-at-jazz-cava-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":0},"title":"C\u00e8sar Joaniquet: Live at Jazz Cava (UnderPool Records; 2025) Por Carlos Lara [Grabaci\u00f3n de jazz]","author":"Tomajazz","date":"5 noviembre, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Live at Jazz Cava (UnderPool Records; 2025) es la nueva grabaci\u00f3n de C\u00e8sar Joaniquet:. 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