{"id":4354,"date":"2013-01-05T00:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T08:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2013-01-05T09:58:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T17:58:21","slug":"cd-jd-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/01\/cd-jd-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: JD Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JD Allen Trio: <a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Matador-Bull-Jd-Allen\/dp\/B007X4HPCC\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">The Matador And The Bull<\/a><\/em><\/a> (Savant)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4355\" alt=\"Allen Matador\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Allen-Matador.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Allen-Matador.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Allen-Matador-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Allen-Matador-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>The tenor saxophonist has changed record labels but not sidemen or his conciseness. While many of his contemporaries\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 solos demand endurance by player and listener alike, Allen expresses himself in short bursts of creativity; the longest track here runs 4:45, including pauses that induce reflection. The CD and tune titles suggest the bullring. If such thematic dressing attracts an audience, so much the better, but the drama and passion of the music that Allen, bassist Gregg August and drummer Rudy Royston make together stands on its own, as music, without the imposition of its being <em>about<\/em> something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Allen Trio: The Matador And The Bull (Savant) The tenor saxophonist has changed record labels but not sidemen or his conciseness. While many of his contemporaries\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 solos demand endurance by player and listener alike, Allen expresses himself in short bursts of creativity; the longest track here runs 4:45, including pauses that induce reflection. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4355,"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-4354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","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=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}