{"id":5467,"date":"2014-02-13T16:49:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T00:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2014-02-13T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T01:04:22","slug":"cd-rudy-royston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/02\/cd-rudy-royston\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Rudy Royston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rudy Royston<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00HGTNJSS\/?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;s=music&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>303<\/em><\/a> (Greenleaf Music)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rudyroyston.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rudyroyston.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"rudyroyston.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rudyroyston.jpg.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rudyroyston.jpg-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In his debut as a leader the young drummer from Denver (area code 303) fronts a septet of his generation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more adventurous players. The eclecticism of the music encompasses Radiohead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153High and Dry,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Mozart motet \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ave Verum Corpus,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a drum feature inspired by Elvin Jones, and homage to Denver trumpeter Ron Miles.  Even in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bownze,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Jones tribute, Royston refrains from drum exhibitionism. Throughout, he melds his work with the septet, which includes two bassists&#151;Yasushi Nakamura and Mimi Jones, the ingenious saxophonist Jon Irabagon, Australian trumpeter Nadja Noordhuis, pianist Sam Harris and guitarist Nir Felder. Royston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impressive compositions and arrangements provide ensemble unity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Royston, 303 (Greenleaf Music) In his debut as a leader the young drummer from Denver (area code 303) fronts a septet of his generation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more adventurous players. The eclecticism of the music encompasses Radiohead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153High and Dry,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Mozart motet \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ave Verum Corpus,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a drum feature inspired by Elvin Jones, and homage to Denver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5468,"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-5467","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\/5467","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=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}