{"id":8398,"date":"2017-05-24T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T00:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2017-05-25T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:38:19","slug":"claudia-quintet-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/05\/claudia-quintet-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Quintet In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Hollenbeck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"140\" \/>As pointed out in a <em>Rifftides<\/em> review earlier this year, drummer John Hollenbeck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Claudia Quintet\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6has unity of thought, purpose and execution more often found in long-lived classical ensembles than in jazz. The difference, of course, is improvisation. Yet, Hollenbeck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skills as composer-arranger, leader and drummer are so finely honed that it is often a challenge to differentiate between his canny orchestration and all-out blowing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is Hollenbeck with his Claudia sidemen in a television appearance in Montreal last year. The players are Hollenbeck, drums; Chris Speed, clarinet; Red Wierenga, accordian; Matt Moran, vibes; and Drew Gress, bass. The piece is Hollenbeck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s composition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peterborough.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aa2FxYLzqpk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over the coming weekend the Claudia Quintet will perform in Cambridge and Holyoke, Massachusetts, and in Vancouver, BC. I hope they sleep well on long flights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As pointed out in a Rifftides review earlier this year, drummer John Hollenbeck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Claudia Quintet\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6has unity of thought, purpose and execution more often found in long-lived classical ensembles than in jazz. The difference, of course, is improvisation. Yet, Hollenbeck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skills as composer-arranger, leader and drummer are so finely honed that it is often a [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","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=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}