{"id":7891,"date":"2016-10-17T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2016-10-17T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:21:50","slug":"monday-recommendation-sanders-strosahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/10\/monday-recommendation-sanders-strosahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Sanders &#038; Strosahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nick Sanders &amp; Logan Strosahl<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2e1VVMT\">Janus<\/a> (Sunnyside)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7892 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/71-zaXXuMhL._SX522_-e1476745107454.jpg\" alt=\"71-zaxxumhl-_sx522_\" width=\"225\" height=\"204\" \/>Collaborators since their student days at the New England Conservatory nearly a decade ago, pianist Sanders and saxophonist Strosahl are dedicated to tradition and improvisation. Making the two qualities inseparable, they take listeners on an excursion through music as old as the dance rhythm of the Allemande, as new as the adventurism of Strosahl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s genre-busting title tune and as familiar as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stardust.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It makes programming and musical sense when they go from their daring \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Be-Bop Tune\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century composer Guillame Machaut, then to the quintessential 20<sup>th<\/sup> century composer Olivier Messiaen. Strosahl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mazurka\u00e2\u20ac\u009d leads into lilt and lyricism in Willard Robison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Old Folks,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with echoes of Charlie Parker. Sanders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 nostalgic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153R.P.D.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d finds the two mostly in sober unison&#8221;\u00a0and in&#8221;\u00a0a plaintive minor ending. With his two faces, the ancient Roman god Janus looked back and ahead\u00e2\u20ac\u201das does this intriguing namesake album.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Sanders &amp; Logan Strosahl, Janus (Sunnyside) Collaborators since their student days at the New England Conservatory nearly a decade ago, pianist Sanders and saxophonist Strosahl are dedicated to tradition and improvisation. Making the two qualities inseparable, they take listeners on an excursion through music as old as the dance rhythm of the Allemande, 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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7891","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\/7891","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=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}