{"id":5094,"date":"2013-09-13T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T00:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2013-09-13T17:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T00:22:05","slug":"cd-david-friesen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/09\/cd-david-friesen\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: David Friesen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Friesen<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brilliant-Heart-David-Friesen\/dp\/B00BK6HSCQ\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Brilliant Heart<\/em><\/a> (ITM Archives)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Dave-Friesen-Brilliant-Heart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Dave-Friesen-Brilliant-Heart.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Friesen Brilliant Heart\" width=\"150\" height=\"132\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5095\" \/><\/a>In this collection of chamber music improvised on original themes, bassist Friesen commemorates an adult son who died in 2009. His \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Scotty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an unaccompanied bass solo incisively intoned and infused with a deep sense of loss. In much of the rest of the album, the pleasure of discovery dominates as Friesen interacts with pianist Greg Goebel and drummer Charlie Doggett and, on some tracks, guitarist Larry Koonse. The piano trio piece \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Purple Painting,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at once blissful and energetic, gets its title from the work by Scotty Friesen that serves as the CD cover. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sailing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a bracing counterpoint encounter among Friesen, Goebel and Koonse, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Painting The Blues\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a heart felt meditation on the younger Friesen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s artistry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Friesen, Brilliant Heart (ITM Archives) In this collection of chamber music improvised on original themes, bassist Friesen commemorates an adult son who died in 2009. His \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Scotty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an unaccompanied bass solo incisively intoned and infused with a deep sense of loss. In much of the rest of the album, the pleasure of discovery [&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-5094","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\/5094","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=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}