{"id":1748,"date":"2009-06-29T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2009-06-29T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T08:04:00","slug":"cd_joe_lovano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/06\/cd_joe_lovano\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Joe Lovano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Lovano%20Folk%20Art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lovano Folk Art.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/Lovano Folk Art-thumb-100x100-8193.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nJ<strong>oe Lovano Us Five<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFolk-Art-Joe-Lovano-Five%2Fdp%2FB001VRDRNI&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Folk Art<\/em><\/a> (Blue Note). As noted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/02\/portland_jazz_festival_part_1.html\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Rifftides<\/em> coverage<\/a> of the Portland Jazz Festival, the saxophonist&#8217;s Us Five band is a playground of reaction and interaction among diverse but finely attuned musicians. The ages of the other band members, who include two drummers, no doubt average half of Lovano&#8217;s. If they provide him inspiration and rhythmic fire, it works both ways. In spirit, the music is based in the post-Coltrane ethos of three decades ago. Lovano&#8217;s energy, imagination and outsized personality make it distinctive.  He dominates, but pianist James Weidman commands attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Lovano Us Five, Folk Art (Blue Note). As noted in the Rifftides coverage of the Portland Jazz Festival, the saxophonist&#8217;s Us Five band is a playground of reaction and interaction among diverse but finely attuned musicians. The ages of the other band members, who include two drummers, no doubt average half of Lovano&#8217;s. If [&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-1748","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\/1748","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=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}