{"id":8890,"date":"2017-12-04T20:38:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T04:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2019-04-27T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T04:47:10","slug":"monday-recommendation-premingers-meditations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/12\/monday-recommendation-premingers-meditations\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Preminger&#8217;s Meditations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Noah Preminger<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noahpreminger.com\/buy\/noah-preminger-mediations-on-freedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meditations On Freedom<\/a> (Dry Bridge Records)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Preminger-M-on-F.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Preminger-M-on-F.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Preminger-M-on-F-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Preminger-M-on-F-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Preminger-M-on-F-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/>Tenor saxophonist and composer Preminger timed the release of this album for the day of Donald Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inauguration as president of The United States. In the months since, it has attracted considerable attention as a protest statement. Preminger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s covers of classic songs from the Civil Rights era by Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke and others achieve his goal, as do new Preminger pieces with titles llike \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We Have A Dream\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The 99 Percent.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The album is a dramatic political and cultural document. Of equal importance: Preminger, trumpeter Jason Palmer, bassist Kim Cass and drummer Ian Froman make it a musical success. Preminger and Palmer solo over the spare accompaniment with passion that intensifies in moments of mutual improvisation. The instrumentation may raise thoughts of Mulligan, Giuffre and a simple past, but the music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thoroughly 21st Century <em>zeitgeist<\/em> is rooted in our edgy times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Preminger, Meditations On Freedom (Dry Bridge Records) Tenor saxophonist and composer Preminger timed the release of this album for the day of Donald Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inauguration as president of The United States. In the months since, it has attracted considerable attention as a protest statement. Preminger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s covers of classic songs from the Civil Rights era [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8891,"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-8890","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\/8890","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=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}