{"id":374,"date":"2006-02-17T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=374"},"modified":"2006-02-17T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T09:06:00","slug":"compatible_quotes_8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/02\/compatible_quotes_8\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no beat anymore. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand. <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThelonious Monk<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Now, can you tell me a story? <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dLester Young<\/strong> (after listening to a pyrotechnic display by a young hotdog saxophonist). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no beat anymore. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}