{"id":1902,"date":"2009-12-12T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2009-12-12T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T09:05:00","slug":"cd_carla_bley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/12\/cd_carla_bley\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Carla Bley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Carla%27s%20Carols.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carla's Carols.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/Carla's Carols-thumb-120x120-11930.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><strong>Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, The Partyka Brass Quintet<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCarlas-Christmas-Carols-Carla-Bley%2Fdp%2FB002PJS38U&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Carla&#8217;s Christmas Carols<\/em><\/a> (Watt). Bley arranges nine classic carols with tenderness, wit, harmonic brilliance, wide dynamic range and a wry sense of nostalgia. She adds two of her own pieces, the gorgeous &#8220;Jesus Maria&#8221; and &#8220;Hell&#8217;s Bells&#8221;, a joyous concoction on &#8220;I Got Rhythm&#8221; changes. Swallow&#8217;s bass work, as always, is perfection. Prepare to be captivated by the brass ensemble and by the solos of trombonist Adrian Mears,  trumpeter Axel Schlosser and hornist Christine Chapman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, The Partyka Brass Quintet, Carla&#8217;s Christmas Carols (Watt). Bley arranges nine classic carols with tenderness, wit, harmonic brilliance, wide dynamic range and a wry sense of nostalgia. She adds two of her own pieces, the gorgeous &#8220;Jesus Maria&#8221; and &#8220;Hell&#8217;s Bells&#8221;, a joyous concoction on &#8220;I Got Rhythm&#8221; changes. Swallow&#8217;s bass [&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-1902","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\/1902","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=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}