{"id":1677,"date":"2009-04-08T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2009-04-08T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T08:04:00","slug":"_branford_marsalis_metamorphos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/04\/_branford_marsalis_metamorphos\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Branford Marsalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Metamorphosen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Metamorphosen.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/Metamorphosen-thumb-100x100-4690.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Branford Marsalis<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMetamorphosen-Branford-Marsalis-Quartet%2Fdp%2FB001QWHQDK%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1239130512%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Metamorphosen<\/em><\/a> (Marsalis Music). In the decade the saxophonist&#8217;s quartet has been making music together, this is its most satisfying album. There&#8217;s the usual dynamism, even aggressiveness, but little of the anger that Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo, Eric Reavis and Jeff &#8220;Tain&#8221; Watts have sometimes worn on their sleeves. All of the impressive tunes are by band members, except Monk&#8217;s &#8220;Rhythm-a-ning.&#8221;  Even at its most abstract, the playing has buoyancy and lyricism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branford Marsalis, Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music). In the decade the saxophonist&#8217;s quartet has been making music together, this is its most satisfying album. There&#8217;s the usual dynamism, even aggressiveness, but little of the anger that Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo, Eric Reavis and Jeff &#8220;Tain&#8221; Watts have sometimes worn on their sleeves. All of the impressive tunes are [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1677","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\/1677","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=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}