{"id":7592,"date":"2016-06-14T21:12:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T04:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2016-06-14T21:36:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T04:36:35","slug":"monday-recommendation-a-day-late-matt-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/06\/monday-recommendation-a-day-late-matt-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation (A Day Late): Matt Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matt Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beginning-Memory-Wilsons-Happy-Family\/dp\/B01DO5WOFQ\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;*Version*=1&#038;*entries*=0&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkId=a57902e96a2ee9af1e38148e68687c05\"target=\"_blank\">Big Happy Family, Beginning Of A Memory<\/a><\/em> (Palmetto)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Willson-Big-Happy.jpg\" alt=\"Willson Big Happy\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Willson-Big-Happy.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Willson-Big-Happy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Willson-Big-Happy-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Willson-Big-Happy-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>The title belies the pain of the loss that inspired Matt Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essentially jovial&#8212;even jocular&#8212;album. The drummer assembled a dozen of his musical colleagues to celebrate his wife Felicia, who died of leukemia two years ago. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flowers For Felicia\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153July Hymn,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are instances of quiet remembrance amid 17 tracks that embrace the keen musicianship, spontaneity and humor (often raucous) that are core elements of Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical and personal style. Pieces like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No Outerwear\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u015325 Years Of Rootabagas\u00e2\u20ac\u009d match Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disciplined, <em>outr\u00c3\u00a9<\/em> approach to life and work. The enthusiasm and abandon of his solo on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Schoolboy Thug\u00e2\u20ac\u009d typify a philosophy embraced throughout the album by trumpeter Terrell Stafford, cornetist Kirk Knuffke, saxophonists Joel Frahm and Jeff Lederer, bassist Martin Wind and accordionist Gary Versace, among others. In his brief notes, Wilson writes that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Felica \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6was all about love.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d So is this album.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Big Happy Family, Beginning Of A Memory (Palmetto) The title belies the pain of the loss that inspired Matt Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essentially jovial&#8212;even jocular&#8212;album. The drummer assembled a dozen of his musical colleagues to celebrate his wife Felicia, who died of leukemia two years ago. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flowers For Felicia\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153July Hymn,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are instances of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7593,"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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-recommendations","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592","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=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}