{"id":5614,"date":"2014-03-26T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5614"},"modified":"2014-03-27T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T19:15:52","slug":"compatible-quotes-don-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/03\/compatible-quotes-don-ellis\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: Don Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;1tQI8nCzIiTd1BiBnMJiAxcbKsXDtR1X&#8221;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I got bored with the old way &#8211; it came too easy. I worked until I could play any chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said &#8216;What else is there?&#8217; Now I&#8217;m finding out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Don-Ellis-facing-left.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Don-Ellis-facing-left.jpg\" alt=\"Don Ellis facing left\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;1tQI8nCzIiTd1BiBnMJiAxcbKsXDtR1X&#8221;] I got bored with the old way &#8211; it came too easy. I worked until I could play any chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said &#8216;What else is there?&#8217; Now I&#8217;m finding out. I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in [&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-5614","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\/5614","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=5614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}