{"id":7604,"date":"2016-06-20T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T00:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2016-06-20T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T00:18:06","slug":"monday-recommendation-chris-ziemba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/06\/monday-recommendation-chris-ziemba\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Chris Ziemba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chris Ziemba<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Manhattan-Lullaby-Chris-Ziemba\/dp\/B01BNWP04Y\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1466462094&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=Chris+Ziemba+Manhattan+Lullaby&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkId=a688f2256ee67e82da4d51204b6ccf0f\"target=\"_blank\">Manhattan Lullaby<\/a> (Outside in Music)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Chris-Ziemba.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Ziemba\" width=\"220\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7605\" \/>His abilities honed by studies at the Eastman School of Music and Juilliard, 29-year-old pianist Chris Ziemba is in demand on the New York scene. His debut recording as a leader discloses a varied compositional sense and a canny choice of sidemen. Ziemba, bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Jimmy MacBride are a keenly interactive trio. Michael Thomas joins them on alto saxophone for Ziemba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evocative \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Road Less Traveled\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and his boppish \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Little T,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and on bass clarinet in the reflective title tune. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Escher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Loops\u00e2\u20ac\u009d seems to concern itself with symmetrical aspects of the work of the Dutch artist M.C. Escher. Ziemba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s keyboard touch and harmonies support the concept. The only piece not by Ziemba is Harry Warren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1945 classic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Wish I Knew.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ziemba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrangement incorporates a bass line leading to a solo in which Glawischnig is simultaneously incisive and relaxed.        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Ziemba, Manhattan Lullaby (Outside in Music) His abilities honed by studies at the Eastman School of Music and Juilliard, 29-year-old pianist Chris Ziemba is in demand on the New York scene. His debut recording as a leader discloses a varied compositional sense and a canny choice of sidemen. Ziemba, bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer [&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-7604","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\/7604","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=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}