{"id":11017,"date":"2019-03-28T22:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T05:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2019-03-28T22:18:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T05:18:02","slug":"recent-listening-logan-strosahl-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/03\/recent-listening-logan-strosahl-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Listening: Logan Strosahl, Sure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Logan Strosahl, Sure<\/a><\/em> (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Piping at the high end of the flute\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s range, guttural near the tenor sax\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s low end, sliding, slurring and sometimes punching notes on alto saxophone, Strosahl is intense and full of surprises with his trio. His music is laced with classical allusions and marinated in jazz feeling. He, bassist Henry Fraser and drummer Allan Mednard create moments in this album in which they come remarkably close to what few groups in the history of improvised music have truly achieved; performing as if the music were the product of a single mind. That is stunningly so in parts of Strosahl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Three\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and it is the case with the rhythmic interaction in a short version of Thelonious Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Coming On The Hudson.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Strosahl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music has amusing moments and relaxing ones, but that is not to say that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easily accessible. The rewards\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand there are many\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcome to those who listen closely. Fraser\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bass draws the listener inside in the opening moments of Billy Strayhorn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Isfahan,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Strosahl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alto sax caresses that precious melody with allusions to the style of Johnny Hodges, who made the piece a bulwark of the Duke Ellington Orchestra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s repertoire. The three inject Mel Stitzel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Chant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with New Orleans parade-beat feeling, and Strosahl ends the album with a masterful, beautifully contained, solo that is occasionally out-and-out funny even before the abrupt ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Logan Strosahl, Sure (Sunnyside) Piping at the high end of the flute\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s range, guttural near the tenor sax\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s low end, sliding, slurring and sometimes punching notes on alto saxophone, Strosahl is intense and full of surprises with his trio. His music is laced with classical allusions and marinated in jazz feeling. He, bassist Henry Fraser […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11018,"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-11017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017","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=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}