{"id":4172,"date":"2011-11-04T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2011-11-04T11:34:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:34:39","slug":"jon-regen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/11\/jon-regen\/","title":{"rendered":"JON REGEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-JON-REGEN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4173\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-JON-REGEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-JON-REGEN.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-JON-REGEN-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>JON REGEN<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Revolution<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>jonregen.com<\/p>\n<p>Jon Regen is a man who knows his instrument. The piano isn\u2019t great for rocking out unless you\u2019re Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard, but it\u2019s perfect for sophisticated, slightly retro pop songs. Regen writes his with the smart, jazzy feel of Ben Folds or Randy Newman, and on such tunes as \u201cShe\u2019s Not You (But Tonight She\u2019ll Have to Do)\u201d and \u201cOne Part Broken, Two Parts Blue,\u201d he gets to play his favorite character: the bemused, brokenhearted New York City night owl. There\u2019s little angst here\u2014Regen isn\u2019t striving for gritty realism\u2014but thanks in part to guests like Tom Petty keyboardist Benmont Tench and ex-Police guitarist Andy Summers, there\u2019s honesty in the performances and overall craftsmanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JON REGEN Revolution jonregen.com Jon Regen is a man who knows his instrument. The piano isn\u2019t great for rocking out unless you\u2019re Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard, but it\u2019s perfect for sophisticated, slightly retro pop songs. Regen writes his with the smart, jazzy feel of Ben Folds or Randy Newman, and on such tunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,2772,2770,2771,2615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172"}],"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=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}