{"id":6065,"date":"2014-09-22T21:24:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T04:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2014-09-22T21:24:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T04:24:29","slug":"monday-recommendation-ali-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/09\/monday-recommendation-ali-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Ali Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;ISZxkrkQhOkAlato9pn6SY8rSH7uQvje&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ali Jackson<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00M0ID8CC\/?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;s=music&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Amalgamations<\/em><\/a> (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ali-Jackson-Amalgamations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ali-Jackson-Amalgamations.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Jackson Amalgamations\" width=\"225\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6066\" \/><\/a>In this appropriately titled collection, the irrepressible drummer and 13 colleagues from the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra and elsewhere combine in groups as small as two. Jackson&#8217;s precision and drive stimulate trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, pianist Eldar Djangirov and saxophonists JD Allen and Ted Nash, among others. Performances include the laconic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Done Tol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 You Fo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Five Times\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which trombonist Vincent Gardner and electric pianist Jonathan Batiste supply Mumbles-ish vocalise. Marsalis blazes through the chords, but not the melody, of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cherokee\u00e2\u20ac\u009d accompanied by Jackson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brushes and Carlos Henriquez\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s acoustic bass. Nash shines in a refractive alto saxophone solo in Joe Henderson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inner Urge.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d On tenor sax, Allen and Djangirov glide through Cole Porter&#8217;s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Love You.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Throughout 11 pieces, Jackson is a dynamo&#151;reacting, interacting, inspiring all hands.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;ISZxkrkQhOkAlato9pn6SY8rSH7uQvje&#8221;] Ali Jackson, Amalgamations (Sunnyside) In this appropriately titled collection, the irrepressible drummer and 13 colleagues from the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra and elsewhere combine in groups as small as two. Jackson&#8217;s precision and drive stimulate trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, pianist Eldar Djangirov and saxophonists JD Allen and Ted Nash, among others. Performances include [&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-6065","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\/6065","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=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}