{"id":1098,"date":"2006-01-03T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2020-08-22T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:54:35","slug":"i-wish-id-heard-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2006\/01\/03\/i-wish-id-heard-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish I&#8217;d heard this"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2006\/01\/02\/Jazz-2005\">Tim Bray describes<\/a>\u00a0a PBS HD Jazz concert. It sounds pretty cool:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Saving the best for the last: The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciabarber.com\/\">Patricia Barber Quartet<\/a>\u00a0played Norwegian Wood. No, that&#8217;s not what they did&#8230; actually they fucking blew the stage to smithereens, caressing the song, then easing into the instrumental space, then offering apocalyptic piano and bass breaks, then dropping into a fast ensemble groove, pure rhythm for the sake of rhythm, why couldn&#8217;t it have gone on for an hour; a penultimate dip into that tart Lennon\/McCartney sweetness and then it ended with a big loud bang. I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of jazz for a lot of years; for my money, the Barber quartet is by a wide margin the world&#8217;s premier currently-active jazz ensemble. Maybe the premier currently-active ensemble in any genre of music.<\/p><cite>Tim Bray describes a PBS HD Jazz Concert<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray describes\u00a0a PBS HD Jazz concert. It sounds pretty cool: Saving the best for the last: The\u00a0Patricia Barber Quartet\u00a0played Norwegian Wood. No, that&#8217;s not what they did&#8230; actually they fucking blew the stage to smithereens, caressing the song, then easing into the instrumental space, then offering apocalyptic piano and bass breaks, then dropping into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}