{"id":7129,"date":"2015-11-30T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2015-12-01T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:53:55","slug":"monday-recommendation-joseph-woodard-on-charles-lloyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/11\/monday-recommendation-joseph-woodard-on-charles-lloyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Josef Woodard On Charles Lloyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Josef Woodard<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Charles-Lloyd-Wild-Blatant-Truth\/dp\/1935247131\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth<\/em><\/a> (Silman-James Press)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2-Woodard-on-Lloyd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2-Woodard-on-Lloyd.jpg\" alt=\"2 Woodard on Lloyd\" width=\"183\" height=\"284\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7127\" \/><\/a>Josef Woodard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book about Charles Lloyd is more akin to a long conversation than a biography. A veteran jazz journalist and practicing musician, Woodard uses his story-telling and research skills to trace the saxophonist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life from his Memphis beginnings to his current resurgence as a major jazz figure. Lloyd is a collaborator in the telling. Over a quarter of a century, the two spent countless hours talking about Lloyd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career, his spiritual mysticism and his profound belief in jazz as a music of freedom. That tenet and his philosophical convictions guided him from the early days of success with his 1960s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Forest Flower\u00e2\u20ac\u009d quartet, sustained him through years of seclusion on the Big Sur coast of California and guided him when he resumed performing. Lloyd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s professional, spiritual and personal partnership with Dorothy Darr makes the book also a moving love story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josef Woodard,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7127,"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-7129","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\/7129","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=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}