{"id":3235,"date":"2012-01-01T00:08:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T08:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2012-01-27T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T04:07:28","slug":"cd-ronnie-cuber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/01\/cd-ronnie-cuber\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Ronnie Cuber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ronnie Cuber<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ronnie-Cuber\/dp\/B002JB40ZY\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Ronnie<\/em><\/a> (Steeplechase) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ronnie-Cuber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ronnie-Cuber.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ronnie Cuber\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ronnie-Cuber.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ronnie-Cuber-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Ronnie-Cuber-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>Cuber has been playing uncompromising jazz on the baritone saxophone for more than half a century. With pianist Helen Sung, bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Jonathan Blake, he is in top form in this 2009 album that escaped my attention until recently. Following his hard-bop gruffness in Freddie Hubbard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thermo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cuber floats with tenderness through Scott LaFaro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gloria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Step\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Michel LeGrand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love Theme From Summer of \u00e2\u20ac\u212242.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d At the speed of thought, he burns through \u00e2\u20ac\u009dAh Leu-Cha\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All the Things You Are\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, giving young Blake a run for his money in their exchanges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie Cuber, Ronnie (Steeplechase) Cuber has been playing uncompromising jazz on the baritone saxophone for more than half a century. With pianist Helen Sung, bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Jonathan Blake, he is in top form in this 2009 album that escaped my attention until recently. Following his hard-bop gruffness in Freddie Hubbard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thermo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cuber [&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-3235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}