{"id":7325,"date":"2017-12-24T13:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7325"},"modified":"2017-12-24T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T18:34:58","slug":"harold-johnson-greensleeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7325","title":{"rendered":"Harold Johnson – Greensleeves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Harold Johnson – Greensleeves MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope that the new week and the holiday season finds you all well.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is a Christmas favorite that got its start as decidedly secular English folk ballad in the 1500s, eventually being appropriated as the Christmas song \u2018What Child Is This\u2019 in 1865.<\/p>\n

It has been recorded countless times in a variety of styles by a long list of performers.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection, by jazz pianist Harold Johnson<\/strong> appeared on his 1970 LP \u2018Wide Open\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Wide Open\u2019 is a fantastic example of alternately funky\/straight soul jazz piano laying down a selection of originals and contemporary covers.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s version of \u2018Greensleeves\u2019 gets off to a hot start with congas and bass, before being joined by a hard-hitting drummer, and then Johnson himself.<\/p>\n

It is an aggressive arrangement of a song that is usually delivered in a much more languid style, and it works very well indeed.<\/p>\n

Johnson and his group had recorded two earlier albums, one on the small LA H.M.E. label and the second (like this one) for Revue.<\/p>\n

Oddly, after 1970 Johnson worked mostly as a sideman on a string of LPs by Eddie Kendricks, Willie Hutch<\/strong> and others and as a composer and arranger.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, and that you all have a happy holiday.<\/p>\n

See you next week<\/p>\n

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Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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