{"id":10501,"date":"2018-10-26T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10501"},"modified":"2018-10-26T23:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:47:22","slug":"weekend-extra-rudy-roystons-flatbed-buggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/10\/weekend-extra-rudy-roystons-flatbed-buggy\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Rudy Royston’s Flatbed Buggy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rudy Royston, Flatbed Buggy<\/a><\/em> (Greenleaf Music)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Blends of accordion, cello, reeds and bowed bass sometimes swell the music of drummer Royston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album nearly to orchestral proportions. But the collection also has simple qualities akin to cowboy songs and folk music, except when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more or less squarely in the bebop tradition, as in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bobblehead.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d John Ellis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s soprano saxophone solo on that track is pure bop except for certain harmonies in the accompaniment that might have raised Bela Bartok\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyebrows if he had heard it. In other words Flatbed Buggy<\/em> has wide variety in its approach.<\/p>\n

The opening track, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Soul Train,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d establishes the life-affirming energy and humor that course through the project. Gary Versace solos on accordion, John Ellis on bass clarinet and Hank Roberts on cello over Royston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s variegated drumming and Joe Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s loping bass line. The title tune has Versace in one of several appearances as a full-range accordionist who in other roles is a principal soloist in the Maria Schneider Orchestra and a frequent collaborator with the equally adaptable and adventurous guitarist Bill Frisell.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bed Bobbin,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dirty Stetson,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hold My Mule,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Guess It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Time To Go\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are short interludes that demonstrate Royston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s drum virtuosity as he works hand in hand with his sidemen. Indeed, the entire album makes clear that not only is he a master of his instrument but it also emphasizes that his complete musicianship allowed authorship of all of the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dozen tunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rudy Royston, Flatbed Buggy (Greenleaf Music) Blends of accordion, cello, reeds and bowed bass sometimes swell the music of drummer Royston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album nearly to orchestral proportions. But the collection also has simple qualities akin to cowboy songs and folk music, except when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more or less squarely in the bebop tradition, as in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bobblehead.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d John […]<\/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-10501","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\/10501","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=10501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}