{"id":5060,"date":"2013-09-03T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2013-09-03T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T03:07:15","slug":"what-happened-in-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/09\/what-happened-in-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened In Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you, too, did not make it to Detroit over the weekend for the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jazz festival, reading about it may be small consolation. Nonetheless, Mark Stryker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s account in <em>The Detroit Free Press<\/em> conveys his excitement and covers the highlights as he heard and saw them. Stryker is not a sports reporter, but he named a most valuable player.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00e2\u2013\u00a0MVP Award:<\/strong> The majestic drummer Billy Hart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Billy-Hart-by-R.-Blanquart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Billy-Hart-by-R.-Blanquart.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Hart by R. Blanquart\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Billy-Hart-by-R.-Blanquart.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Billy-Hart-by-R.-Blanquart-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Billy-Hart-by-R.-Blanquart-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a> brought his extraordinary ability to both respond to and spontaneously shape a band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conception to three performances with three different groups. Freedom, discipline, daring, passion, swing, broken rhythm, orchestral textures, interactive sparring, shocking dynamics, astounding creativity and authority. Want to know what jazz is really about? Listen to Billy Hart. (With the Saxophone Summit, David Weiss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 The Cookers, Quest)                    <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">(photo by Romain Blanquart, <em>Detroit Free Press<\/em>)<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For all of Stryker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20130902\/COL17\/309020082\/detroit-jazz-festival-review-stryker\"target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. Don&#8217;t miss the highlighted sidebars and slide shows. <\/p>\n<p>Here is Hart with his quartet at Dizzy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Club Coca Cola in New York earlier this year with a lovely medium-tempo blues in G, title unknown. From left to right in the video: Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street, Billy Hart. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gjv_AcKu7iI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/08\/recent-listening-billy-hart-zoot-sims.html\"target=\"_blank\">Go here<\/a> for a recent <em>Rifftides<\/em> review of the Hart quartet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you, too, did not make it to Detroit over the weekend for the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jazz festival, reading about it may be small consolation. Nonetheless, Mark Stryker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s account in The Detroit Free Press conveys his excitement and covers the highlights as he heard and saw them. Stryker is not a sports reporter, but he named [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","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=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}