{"id":7133,"date":"2015-12-02T17:39:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T01:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2015-12-02T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T06:27:08","slug":"nicole-johanntgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/12\/nicole-johanntgen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Joh\u00c3\u00a4nntgen, Ho, Ho, Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Christmas-music-symbol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Christmas-music-symbol.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas music symbol\" width=\"200\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7134\" \/><\/a>The <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff does not plan to observe the season by loading the blog with jazz versions of Christmas songs. There may be exceptions. <\/p>\n<p>The first exception is a video brought to our attention in a message from the irrepressible German alto and soprano saxophonist Nicole Joh\u00c3\u00a4nntgen. In the clip, Ms. Joh\u00c3\u00a4nntgen is disguised as someone you may recognize.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZiQfLoTc8iA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p><p>Here she is, undisguised, at a 2015 festival in Italy, with the William Lenihan Quartet&#8212;Lenihan, guitar; Francesco Puglisi, bass; Lucrezio de Seta, drums<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0gRTwJjbwck?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>For a review of Ms. Joh\u00c3\u00a4nntgen and her band called Sofia (Support of Female Improvising Artists) at last summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/08\/fourteen-festival-women.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rifftides staff does not plan to observe the season by loading the blog with jazz versions of Christmas songs. There may be exceptions. The first exception is a video brought to our attention in a message from the irrepressible German alto and soprano saxophonist Nicole Joh\u00c3\u00a4nntgen. In the clip, Ms. Joh\u00c3\u00a4nntgen is disguised as [&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-7133","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\/7133","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=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}