{"id":4893,"date":"2022-11-25T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2022-11-25T14:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:16:59","slug":"yishka-blows-with-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4893","title":{"rendered":"Yishka Blows with the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u2018Windy Day\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a 12-song album from saxophonist Yishka, was released November 11 by Upstairs Music out of South Florida. It is the veteran musician\u2019s fourth album, the previous being a self-titled effort last year.<\/p>\n<p>His latest set contains six covers including takes on The Melodians&#8217; rock steady classic,<strong><em> \u2018Little Nut Tree\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Ken Boothe\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018The Train is Coming\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Change the World\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, the 1997 Grammy Song of the Year by Eric Clapton and Babyface.<\/p>\n<p>There is also space for originals like the title song and World Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Typical of jazz-inspired musicians, Yishka enjoys interpreting pop standards. He also understands the meaning of composing his own songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I think it\u2019s important to have original songs is that is your voice in this case, my voice, is how I conceive music not only with the melodies for the saxophone, but also with songs that I write for voice,&#8221; Yishka explained.<\/p>\n<p>Yishka was born in Jamaica but spent most of his childhood in The Bahamas where his father,\u00a0bandleader Teddy Greaves, played the hotel circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to Jamaica at age 16, he continued to develop his skills in his father\u2019s band. During the 1980s, Yishka was a member of the Soul Syndicate Band, best known for backing acts like The Wailers and Dennis Brown.<\/p>\n<p>His first album<strong><em>, \u2018A Song for You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, was released in 2003, followed in 2012 by <strong><em>\u2018Trodding East\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Windy Day\u2019, a 12-song album from saxophonist Yishka, was released November 11 by Upstairs Music out of South Florida. It is the veteran musician\u2019s fourth album, the previous being a self-titled effort last year. His latest set contains six covers including takes on The Melodians&#8217; rock steady classic, \u2018Little Nut Tree\u2019, Ken Boothe\u2019s \u2018The Train [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4896,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/4896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}