{"id":7276,"date":"2016-01-25T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T01:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7276"},"modified":"2016-01-25T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T04:16:15","slug":"monday-recommendation-peter-erskine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/01\/monday-recommendation-peter-erskine\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Peter Erskine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Peter Erskine<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dr-Um-Peter-Erskine\/dp\/B0184ZZH8C\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">is Dr. Um<\/a> (Fuzzy Music)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/51tvAQ2FSTL.jpg\" alt=\"51tvAQ2FSTL\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/51tvAQ2FSTL.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/51tvAQ2FSTL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/51tvAQ2FSTL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/51tvAQ2FSTL-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/51tvAQ2FSTL-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Any marriage depends on how the partners blend. Drummer Peter Erskine helped Weather Report and Steps Ahead achieve two of the most successful of all efforts to fuse jazz with other elements. In <em>Dr. Um<\/em> (get it?), he does it again, with collaborators who share his sense of music as a broad canvas for intermingling colors. The sources include two pieces by master Weather Report painter Joe Zawinul, one of Gustav Mahler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deeply felt songs, Gary McFarland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sage Hands,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a Vince Mendoza number and originals by Erskine and keyboardist John Beasely, the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s co-producers. Beasely, tenor saxophonist Bob Sheppard, and guitarists Jeff Parker and Larry Koonse solo impressively. The powerful electric bass is by Janek Gwizdala. Underneath it all, Erskine gives perfect buoyancy to every mood. His solo on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Northern Cross\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is riveting for its subtlety.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Erskine, is Dr. Um (Fuzzy Music) Any marriage depends on how the partners blend. Drummer Peter Erskine helped Weather Report and Steps Ahead achieve two of the most successful of all efforts to fuse jazz with other elements. In Dr. Um (get it?), he does it again, with collaborators who share his sense of [&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-7276","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\/7276","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=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}