{"id":783,"date":"2012-02-22T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/02\/the-roots-of-a-jazz-drummer.html"},"modified":"2012-02-22T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:40:00","slug":"the-roots-of-a-jazz-drummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/02\/the-roots-of-a-jazz-drummer.html","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of a Jazz Drummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT seems like everyone who saw Justin Faulkner&#8217;s performance with Branford Marsalis out here has told me personally that we have to look out for this kid. Faulkner started that association on his 18th birthday, while still a high school senior.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>This week, as a ripe old man of 20, Faulkner spoke to me about his development as a jazz listener and drummer after cutting his teeth on R&#038;B and gospel. Billy Higgins shows up on his list of influences &#8212; which I kind of expected &#8212; as did Shostakovich, which I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>My Influences column on Faulkner, who plays this Saturday at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood as part of the Kurt Ronsenwinkel trio, is <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2012\/02\/influences-jazz-drummer-justin-faulkner.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT seems like everyone who saw Justin Faulkner&#8217;s performance with Branford Marsalis out here has told me personally that we have to look out for this kid. Faulkner started that association on his 18th birthday, while still a high school senior. This week, as a ripe old man of 20, Faulkner spoke to me about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-jazz","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}