{"id":793,"date":"2007-01-18T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=793"},"modified":"2007-01-18T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T09:05:00","slug":"more_on_brecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/01\/more_on_brecker\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Brecker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tenor saxophonist Mark Turner offers a heartfelt, forthright  evaluation of Michael Brecker, including this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I saw him put his horn on at clinics and soundchecks and&#8211;cold, without warming up&#8211;instantly play the most f&#8212;&#8212;- incredible sh&#8211;, stuff that most saxophonists simply cannot deal with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, I cleaned it a little up for a family audience.  To read all of Turner&#8217;s unexpurgated throughts about Brecker, go to The Bad Plus web log, <a href=\"http:\/\/thebadplus.typepad.com\/dothemath\/2007\/01\/michael_brecker.html\"targe=\"_blank\"><em>Do The Math<\/em><\/a>.  Pianist Ethan Iverson writes most of the blog. It is worth frequent visits. I have added its link to <strong>Other Places<\/strong> in the right-hand column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenor saxophonist Mark Turner offers a heartfelt, forthright evaluation of Michael Brecker, including this: I saw him put his horn on at clinics and soundchecks and&#8211;cold, without warming up&#8211;instantly play the most f&#8212;&#8212;- incredible sh&#8211;, stuff that most saxophonists simply cannot deal with. Okay, I cleaned it a little up for a family audience. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}