{"id":6902,"date":"2015-08-24T23:54:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T06:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6902"},"modified":"2015-08-24T23:54:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T06:54:25","slug":"monday-recommendation-the-jaki-byard-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/08\/monday-recommendation-the-jaki-byard-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: The Jaki Byard Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Jaki Byard Project<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Jaki-Byard-Project-Inch\/dp\/B00IZLPI76\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">Inch By Inch, Yard Byard<\/a><\/em> (GM Recordings)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jaki-Byard-Project.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jaki-Byard-Project.jpg\" alt=\"Jaki Byard Project\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jaki-Byard-Project.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jaki-Byard-Project-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jaki-Byard-Project-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jaki-Byard-Project-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>An album in tribute to a prodigious pianist&#8212;without a pianist; it must have seemed a good idea when flutist Jamie Baum conceived it. And it was. Ms. Baum, drummer George Schuller and guitarist Jerome Harris studied with Byard at the New England Conservatory. He died in 1999. Byard&#8217;s compositions and the inspiration of his genius as an arranger influenced their musical development. They recruited bassist Ugonna Okegwo and multiple reed artist Adam Kolker and founded The Jaki Byard Project. The group&#8217;s translation of a dozen Byard compositions into hip chamber pieces refracts facets of their mentor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kaleidoscopic oeuvre, from the wryness of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Aluminum Baby\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the ruminations of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ode to Charlie Parker.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  All members play beautifully. Ms. Baum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flute work and Kolker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenor saxophone, particularly on the Parker memorium, deserve special mention.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jaki Byard Project, Inch By Inch, Yard Byard (GM Recordings) An album in tribute to a prodigious pianist&#8212;without a pianist; it must have seemed a good idea when flutist Jamie Baum conceived it. And it was. Ms. Baum, drummer George Schuller and guitarist Jerome Harris studied with Byard at the New England Conservatory. He [&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-6902","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\/6902","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=6902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}