{"id":9086,"date":"2018-02-05T19:16:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T03:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9086"},"modified":"2018-03-08T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T01:48:52","slug":"monday-recommendation-sultanof-on-big-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/02\/monday-recommendation-sultanof-on-big-bands\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Sultanof On Big Bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeff Sultanof<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2E5CESs\">Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Companion<\/a> (Rowman &amp; Littlefield)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/51ntoxnwffL-e1517885844758.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"327\" \/>The scope of jazz played by large ensembles is vast, but the clear-thinking scholar-musician Jeff Sultanof compresses its century-long history into a 200-page book. He accomplishes that feat by leading readers through big band music and its makers almost as if he had us by the hand. He does so by presenting musical examples that are part of the digital world in which most of us live. He explains on an early page,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The neat thing is that you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to spend one penny to listen to the examples cited in this book; all but one of them are on the Web via <em>YouTube<\/em> or <em>Spotify<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, you can read, for example, a description of Bill Holman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrangement of Thelonious Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bemsha Swing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcomplete with Sultanof\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time-markings of crucial moments\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand experience the music. This is a book that lives up to its title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Sultanof, Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Companion (Rowman &amp; Littlefield) The scope of jazz played by large ensembles is vast, but the clear-thinking scholar-musician Jeff Sultanof compresses its century-long history into a 200-page book. He accomplishes that feat by leading readers through big band music and its makers almost as if he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9087,"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-9086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086","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=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}