{"id":1058,"date":"2007-08-27T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2007-08-27T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T08:01:00","slug":"book_lee_konitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/08\/book_lee_konitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Lee Konitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Hamilton, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/titleDetailDesc.do?id=130264\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser&#8217;s Art <\/em><\/a>(Michigan). Unlike the overwhelming majority of books made up of verbatim interviews, this one works. Konitz&#8217;s disarming candor about himself and others and Hamilton&#8217;s organizational and writing skills transcend the form to create a balanced portrait of the alto saxophonist, one of the great individualists in jazz. Hamilton&#8217;s transitions, insights, and interviews about Konitz with other musicians help make the book a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Hamilton, Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser&#8217;s Art (Michigan). Unlike the overwhelming majority of books made up of verbatim interviews, this one works. Konitz&#8217;s disarming candor about himself and others and Hamilton&#8217;s organizational and writing skills transcend the form to create a balanced portrait of the alto saxophonist, one of the great individualists in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","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=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}