{"id":5746,"date":"2011-07-12T03:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T03:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2019-07-10T04:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T04:41:37","slug":"jazzreview-com-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/review\/jazzreview-com-review\/","title":{"rendered":"JazzReview.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chicago guitarist, composer and producer Vince Agwada has worked the Chicago music scene for over 25 years. This heavily blues and rock oriented musician has worked with artists like Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Magic Slim, Otis Rush, Syl Johnson and Sammy Lawhorn, to list but a few. Of his many awards the most standout one was when, in 1996, Agwada was listed as one of the top 40 Blues artists under 40 by Living Blues Magazine.&nbsp;<em>Basic Blue<\/em>&nbsp;is his second release as a leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agwada has a heavily rock driven feel to his blues. Seriously punched and driven by drummer Clyde Davis whose vicious two fisted style plays well with Agwada\u2019s thick chordal ala-Jimmy Hendrix guitar textures, Agawada approaches his music with a pedal to the metal take no prisoners attitude. Orlando Wright\u2019s bass is totally locked into the ensemble so perfectly it\u2019s almost impossible to pull the sound of his instrument from the guitar textures. It\u2019s as if he and Agwada are one instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the tunes are of the power thrash-blues style, at which Agwada excels. Both \u201cChi-Town State Of Mind\u201d and \u201cBlindsided,\u201d the lead in tracks on the CD, are of this style and open the disc perfectly. There is, however, some diversity. \u201cPresident,\u201d for example, has a nice half-beat style that is accentuated by the addition of Roosevelt Purifoy\u2019s keyboard work. The instrumental \u201cHead Too Tight\u201d adds Michael Jackson\u2019s spiced up saxophone into the almost pop-oriented backbeat, and \u201cShake It Up\u201d has a three horn wind section that further helps to eliminate any monotony that might ensue. The down tempo \u201cBlack Rain\u201d is so swampy you may have to play the track a number of times before you want to leave; it\u2019s that inviting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agwada obviously knows what he\u2019s doing and plays his hand extremely well on this disc. For seriously diehard blues fans this disc will thrill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Thomas R. Erdmann \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzreview.com\/reviews\/latest-cd-track-reviews\/item\/28449-basic-blue-by-vince-agwada.html\">Jazzreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago guitarist, composer and producer Vince Agwada has worked the Chicago music scene for over 25 years. This heavily blues and rock oriented musician has worked with artists like Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Magic Slim, Otis Rush, Syl Johnson and Sammy Lawhorn, to list but a few. Of his many awards the most standout one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5755,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions\/5755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}