{"id":10903,"date":"2019-02-12T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T00:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2019-02-13T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:49:29","slug":"british-critic-alun-morgan-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/02\/british-critic-alun-morgan-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"British Critic Alun Morgan Is Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alun Morgan, 1928-2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TELEMMGLPICT000181942951_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq5c10dq0dGUIhCIasP1wj9RLg8b216sLg_pfRtQhezok-e1550019137686.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TELEMMGLPICT000181942951_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq5c10dq0dGUIhCIasP1wj9RLg8b216sLg_pfRtQhezok-e1550019137686.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>The influential and prolific British critic Alun Morgan has died. Morgan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s critiques, reviews and album notes were among the most widely read of those by any contemporary jazz critic. &#8221;\u00a0His longtime admirers included fellow critic Mark Gardner, whose own reputation in British jazz circles and elsewhere grew substantially after he fell under Morgan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s influence and entered the critical field. Gardner wrote&#8221;\u00a0an appreciation for the January 14 issue of <em>Jazz Journal.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>To see it, <a href=\"https:\/\/jazzjournal.co.uk\/2019\/01\/14\/alun-morgan-remembered\/\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0Alun Morgan, RIP.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alun Morgan, 1928-2019 The influential and prolific British critic Alun Morgan has died. Morgan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s critiques, reviews and album notes were among the most widely read of those by any contemporary jazz critic. &#8221;\u00a0His longtime admirers included fellow critic Mark Gardner, whose own reputation in British jazz circles and elsewhere grew substantially after he fell under [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10903","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\/10903","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=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}