{"id":1747,"date":"2009-06-29T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2009-06-29T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T08:05:00","slug":"cdgrant_stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/06\/cdgrant_stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"CD:Grant Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/Stewart, Ellington-thumb-100x100-8190.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Stewart, Ellington.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/Stewart, Ellington-thumb-100x100-8190-thumb-100x100-8191.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><strong>Grant Stewart<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGrant-Stewart-Plays-Ellington-Strayhorn%2Fdp%2FB0025KN47Y&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Plays The Music of Duke Ellington And Billy Strayhorn<\/em><\/a> (Sharp Nine). If you like the way Sonny Rollins played the tenor saxophone in 1955, you&#8217;ll like the way Grant Stewart plays it now.  Stewart masters the harmony, phrasing and tone that Rollins applied in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWork-Time-Sonny-Rollins%2Fdp%2FB000000Y08&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Work Time<\/em><\/a> and other albums of his classic Prestige period. The similarity is stunning on &#8220;Raincheck&#8221; and &#8220;It Don&#8217;t Mean a Thing,&#8221; but the younger man is not a clone. On ballads including &#8220;The Star Crossed Lovers,&#8221; Stewart creates new melodies with thoughtfulness and conviction. His rhythmic urgency is compelling even at slow tempos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Stewart Plays The Music of Duke Ellington And Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine). If you like the way Sonny Rollins played the tenor saxophone in 1955, you&#8217;ll like the way Grant Stewart plays it now. Stewart masters the harmony, phrasing and tone that Rollins applied in Work Time and other albums of his classic Prestige [&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-1747","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\/1747","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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}