{"id":10294,"date":"2018-09-23T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10294"},"modified":"2018-09-23T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T02:58:31","slug":"scott-robinson-tenor-saxophone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/09\/scott-robinson-tenor-saxophone\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Robinson, Tenor Saxophone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Scott-Robinson-in-blue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Scott-Robinson-in-blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a>Our blogging pace will abate for a while. I am researching and writing liner notes for Scott Robinson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next album. In it, he returns to his first love, the tenor saxophone, leaving behind the approximately 327 other instruments that he houses on his farm. Robinson tells me that he sometimes meets people who tell him they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that he plays tenor sax. I tell you emphatically that he does, as the video in a 2013 <em>Rifftides<\/em> post makes gloriously apparent. It highlights not only Robinson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenor sax power but also the synergy between him and Emil Viklick\u00c3\u00bd, the pianist who is one of his favorite sparring partners. To see and hear them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/01\/viklicky-and-robinson-meet-again.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the album to be released later this year by Arbors Records, Robinson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remarkable rhythm section is Helen Sung, piano; Martin Wind, bass; and Dennis Mackrel, drums. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let you know when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our blogging pace will abate for a while. I am researching and writing liner notes for Scott Robinson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next album. In it, he returns to his first love, the tenor saxophone, leaving behind the approximately 327 other instruments that he houses on his farm. Robinson tells me that he sometimes meets people who tell him [&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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}