{"id":6786,"date":"2014-11-25T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T21:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2021-01-25T23:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T07:44:05","slug":"second-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/?p=6786","title":{"rendered":"Second Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an incredibly fun gig last night! Thanks to Oscar Cartaya who got me on board as the <em>second<\/em> keyboard player for &#8220;Singer&#8217;s Night&#8221; hosted by Delious Kennedy of All 4 One at the Federal Bar. They do this once a month or so, picking a different theme every time. Last night&#8217;s was &#8220;Michael versus Janet&#8221;, as in Jackson of course, and the selection of tunes was awesome. It&#8217;s not often that one gets to play &#8220;Can You Feel It&#8221; or the <em>other<\/em> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/0ZUw-2HlmTE\">Heartbreak Hotel&#8221; &#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The band was top notch by the way, with Andy Abad (Backstreet Boys, Marc Anthony) on guitar, Paul Alexander Gonzalez (Gloria Estefan, All 4 One) on drums, Kenneth Towns (The Jacksons) on first keyboard and Oscar (Spyro Gyra, Jennifer Lopez, Herb Alpert) of course on (synth)bass; all these guys are just excellent, and it&#8217;s just beyond cool to recreate those epic productions with a big band. There were a few ringers thrown in, but all the singers were at least competent too, with some being truly world-class. The place was packed and fun was had by all&#8230;.this is why we live in L.A.!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an incredibly fun gig last night! Thanks to Oscar Cartaya who got me on board as the second keyboard player for &#8220;Singer&#8217;s Night&#8221; hosted by Delious Kennedy of All &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/?p=6786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Second Keyboard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-positive","category-the-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6787,"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/6787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ricobelled.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}