{"id":1949,"date":"2011-03-20T09:55:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2011-03-20T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T17:00:13","slug":"joe-lovanous-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/joe-lovanous-five\/","title":{"rendered":"JOE LOVANO\/US FIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JOE-LOVANO-US-FIVE-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1950\" title=\"JOE-LOVANO-US-FIVE-M-Review-JanFeb2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JOE-LOVANO-US-FIVE-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JOE-LOVANO-US-FIVE-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JOE-LOVANO-US-FIVE-M-Review-JanFeb2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>J<\/strong><strong>OE LOVANO\/US FIVE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Bird Songs <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Blue Note]<\/p>\n<p>When Joe Lovano decided to record an album interpreting the songs of Charlie Parker, he knew the best approach he could take was to not pretend to be Parker himself. And why should he? Lovano has been one of the most consistently inventive saxophonists in jazz for more than two decades. The melodies and chordal shifts may be as familiar as bebop itself, but <em>Bird Songs<\/em> sounds and feels like what it is: a Joe Lovano record. Lovano\u2019s ability to navigate Bird\u2019s oft-tricky rhythmic changes and his innate understanding of Parker\u2019s moods are apparent from the opening notes of \u201cPassport,\u201d but it doesn\u2019t take long before he departs from the script (primarily on tenor, as opposed to Bird\u2019s trademark alto). From the standard ballad \u201cLover Man\u201d to the free-flowing \u201cMoose the Mooche\u201d to the 12-minute, album-closing \u201cYardbird Suite,\u201d Lovano and crew channel Bird without worshiping at his feet. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u2018Lovano\u2019s ability to navigate Bird\u2019s\u00a0oft-tricky rhythmic changes and his innate understanding of Parker\u2019s moods are apparent from the opening notes.\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOE LOVANO\/US FIVE Bird Songs [Blue Note] When Joe Lovano decided to record an album interpreting the songs of Charlie Parker, he knew the best approach he could take was to not pretend to be Parker himself. And why should he? Lovano has been one of the most consistently inventive saxophonists in jazz for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1484,1485,1059,1483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}