{"id":347,"date":"2010-10-15T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/10\/jason_moran_genius_andor_very\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:32:47","slug":"jason_moran_genius_andor_very","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/10\/jason_moran_genius_andor_very.html","title":{"rendered":"Jason Moran: Genius and\/or very hard worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MacArthur Fellowship to pianist\/composer\/bandleader Jason Moran follows from that Foundation&#8217;s ongoing trend to give $500,000 no-strings-attached to musicians who&#8217;ve demonstrated accomplishment and seem to promise more. Here&#8217;s my <a href=\"http:\/\/cityarts.info\/2010\/10\/13\/genius-among-us\/\">City Arts-New York column&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;re what Moran&#8217;s done and how things have changed since Monk, Bird, Dizzy et al brought modernism to jazz, without any dream of non-profit or governmental financial support.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email or  RSS<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MacArthur Fellowship to pianist\/composer\/bandleader Jason Moran follows from that Foundation&#8217;s ongoing trend to give $500,000 no-strings-attached to musicians who&#8217;ve demonstrated accomplishment and seem to promise more. Here&#8217;s my City Arts-New York column&nbsp;&nbsp;re what Moran&#8217;s done and how things have changed since Monk, Bird, Dizzy et al brought modernism to jazz, without any dream of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[410,1032,1033],"class_list":{"0":"post-347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-city-arts-new-york","8":"tag-jason-moran","9":"tag-macarthur-foundation-fellowship","10":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-5B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":550,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/09\/congrats-to-dafnis-prieto-macarthur-fellow.html","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":0},"title":"Congrats to Dafnis Prieto, MacArthur fellow","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"September 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cuban-born, New York-resident drummer-composer Dafnis Prieto\u00c2\u00a0has been named a 2011 MacArthur fellow, an honor attended by $500,000 to do with as he pleases, doled out $100K a year for five years. 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