{"id":2359,"date":"2012-06-26T21:46:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T01:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2013-12-09T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:19:49","slug":"speaking-of-real-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/06\/26\/speaking-of-real-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;speaking of real jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I wrote about how the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival is about a lot more than jazz. \u00a0Well I just returned from the realest (most real?) jazz show that I&#8217;ve yet seen since this festival began last Thursday. \u00a0It was pianist Joey Calderazzo and saxophonist Branford Marsalis playing in the 300-seat NAC Studio.<\/p>\n<p>It was unamplified, they had no idea what tune they were going to play next, several times one would start a tune and the other would be stumped for a few measures, and their friendship and musical kinship was felt by everyone in the crowd. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t the most enjoyable show I&#8217;ve seen here (Brian Blade&#8217;s Fellowship Band gets that distinction) but it was close, and it was the one that, for me, was the best definition of jazz&#8230;joyful, spontaneous, accessible, soulful, risky and just plain real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I wrote about how the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival is about a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13969,13970,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}