{"id":6917,"date":"2015-08-31T22:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6917"},"modified":"2015-08-31T22:48:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T05:48:14","slug":"monday-recommendation-logan-strosahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/08\/monday-recommendation-logan-strosahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Logan Strosahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Logan Strosahl<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Up-Go-We-Logan-Strosahl\/dp\/B00ZITYQWG\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Up Go We<\/em><\/a> (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Logan-Strosahl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Logan-Strosahl.jpg\" alt=\"Logan Strosahl\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6918\" \/><\/a>The unconventional structure of the title of Strosahl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album smacks of post-Elizabethan England. Currents running through the music also evoke that time and place. The composer and saxophonist is a devotee of the orderly composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) and of disorderly free improvisation. Both elements are apparent. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153M.M. Ground,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d concerned with post-Coltrane harmonic content, has a wild Strosahl alto saxophone solo leavened with Earl Bostic throat tones. His solo on the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only standard, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d establishes his bona fides in the jazz tradition. The composer is a product of the advanced music programs of Seattle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Roosevelt High School and the New England Conservatory. His septet of young New Yorkers has aspects of bebop ensembles, 1940s jump bands and the most adventurous contemporary classical music and jazz. The ensemble writing is exquisite. <em>Up Go We<\/em> is 40 minutes long. It rewards hours of listening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Strosahl, Up Go We (Sunnyside) The unconventional structure of the title of Strosahl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album smacks of post-Elizabethan England. Currents running through the music also evoke that time and place. The composer and saxophonist is a devotee of the orderly composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) and of disorderly free improvisation. Both elements are apparent. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153M.M. Ground,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&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-6917","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\/6917","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=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}