{"id":7393,"date":"2016-03-07T13:30:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7393"},"modified":"2016-03-08T12:54:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:54:17","slug":"monday-recommendation-laurence-hobgood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/03\/monday-recommendation-laurence-hobgood\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Laurence Hobgood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Laurence Hobgood<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurencehobgood.com\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Honor Thy Fathers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hobgood-Honor-Thy-Fathers.jpg\" alt=\"Hobgood Honor Thy Fathers\" width=\"210\" height=\"185\" \/>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that Laurence Hobgood was buried during his 18 years as Kurt Elling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical director. Indeed, he was one of the most admired supporting pianists in modern music. But last year\u00e2\u20ac\u201devidently with Elling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s encouragement\u00e2\u20ac\u201dHobgood parted ways with the singer and launched his solo career. This album showcases the extent of his mastery. With bassist John Patitucci and drummer Kendrick Scott, Hobgood plays original compositions that include tributes to Bill Evans and Charlie Haden. He works a transformation in 7\/4 time of Nat Cole\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Straighten Up and Fly<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hobgood-cameo.jpg\" alt=\"Hobgood cameo\" width=\"140\" height=\"137\" \/> Right\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, takes Stevie Wonder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leisurely \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Magic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at a brisk clip and makes the standard \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Give Me the Simple Life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a three-way conversation with Patitucci and Scott. Hobgood dedicates the album to his own late father and to musical father figures Evans and Oscar Peterson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence Hobgood, Honor Thy Fathers It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that Laurence Hobgood was buried during his 18 years as Kurt Elling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical director. Indeed, he was one of the most admired supporting pianists in modern music. But last year\u00e2\u20ac\u201devidently with Elling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s encouragement\u00e2\u20ac\u201dHobgood parted ways with the singer and launched his solo career. This album showcases the extent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7394,"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-7393","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\/7393","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=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}