{"id":8653,"date":"2017-09-18T16:52:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2017-09-18T16:52:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:52:48","slug":"listening-in-brief-victor-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/09\/listening-in-brief-victor-gould\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Listening In Brief: Victor Gould"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Victor Gould<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jxJ3Ad\"><em>Clockwork<\/em><\/a> (Fresh Sound New Talent)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Clockwork-Gould.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"203\" \/>A Los Angeles native now in New York, pianist Gould debuts as a leader in an album showcasing him and an impressive collection of established musicians. He apprenticed as a sideman with, among other leader, Vincent Herring, Wallace Roney and Ralph Peterson. As a composer and arranger Gould works in a wide instrumental spectrum. His pieces range from the fleet \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sir Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in a trio with E.J. Strickland and bassist Ben Williams, to compositions for a sextet augmented with strings, Anne Drummond\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flute and the Latin percussion of Pedrito Martinez. Saxophonists Myron Walden and Godwin Louis and trumpeter Jeremy Pelt are important as soloists and in ensembles. Influences detectable in Gould\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writing include those of John Coltrane in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Apostle John\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Wayne Shorter in Shorter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s modern classic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nefertiti.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d However, in his concept, playing and\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnotably\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhis writing, Gould seems poised to make his mark as an original. He has surrounded himself here with a cadre of consequential twenty-, thirty- and forty-something New York peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Gould, Clockwork (Fresh Sound New Talent) A Los Angeles native now in New York, pianist Gould debuts as a leader in an album showcasing him and an impressive collection of established musicians. He apprenticed as a sideman with, among other leader, Vincent Herring, Wallace Roney and Ralph Peterson. As a composer and arranger Gould [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8654,"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-8653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","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=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}