{"id":5693,"date":"2012-04-24T08:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5693"},"modified":"2012-04-24T08:21:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:21:53","slug":"spectrum-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/spectrum-road\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECTRUM ROAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5694\" title=\"SPECTRUM-ROAD-M-Review-MarApr2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SPECTRUM-ROAD-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SPECTRUM-ROAD-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SPECTRUM-ROAD-M-Review-MarApr2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>S<\/strong><strong>PECTRUM ROAD<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Spectrum Road<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Palmetto]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSupergroup\u201d is a term that was long ago diluted, but every once in a while the stars align and the word regains its meaning. Spectrum Road is incontestably a supergroup: Cream bassist Jack Bruce; Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid; keyboardist John Medeski of Medeski Martin &amp; Wood; and drummer Cindy Blackman, who has backed husband Carlos Santana, Lenny Kravitz and others. Spectrum Road\u2014and the quartet\u2019s eponymous debut\u2014was conceived to honor the late drummer and jazz-fusion pioneer Tony Williams. Spectrum Road does the Williams legacy proud. Eight of the album\u2019s 10 songs come from the Lifetime\/Williams discography (two are new originals), with the group using the original compositions as a jumping-off point without ever losing sight of what Williams accomplished four decades back. With Bruce adding vocals when called for, and each of the players free to indulge epically, <em>Spectrum Road<\/em> is as pure a fusion record as has been heard in years. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPECTRUM ROAD Spectrum Road [Palmetto] \u201cSupergroup\u201d is a term that was long ago diluted, but every once in a while the stars align and the word regains its meaning. Spectrum Road is incontestably a supergroup: Cream bassist Jack Bruce; Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid; keyboardist John Medeski of Medeski Martin &amp; Wood; and drummer Cindy [&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":[196,3303,3407,3406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693"}],"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=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}