{"id":6982,"date":"2012-08-02T02:05:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T09:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2012-08-02T02:05:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T09:05:59","slug":"wayne-krantz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/wayne-krantz\/","title":{"rendered":"WAYNE KRANTZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6983\" title=\"WAYNE-KRANTZ-M-Review-June2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/WAYNE-KRANTZ-M-Review-June2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/WAYNE-KRANTZ-M-Review-June2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/WAYNE-KRANTZ-M-Review-June2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>W<\/strong><strong>AYNE KRANTZ<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Howie 61<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>waynekrantz.com<\/p>\n<p>Among other things\u2014lots of other things, actually\u2014<em>Howie 61<\/em> is a taking-stock record. On \u201cI\u2019d Like to Thank My Body,\u201d this New York City jazz-fusion guitarist gives props to his brain and vascular system, rating his earthly frame a \u201cmore or less acceptable container for living\u201d over an elastic funk beat. If that doesn\u2019t prove there\u2019s plenty of life left in this chameleonic player, Krantz takes the bold step of rapping on the title cut, busting rhymes to a groovy prog-blues backing suitable for latter-day Steely Dan. He goes on to cover Grandmaster Flash by way of Ice Cube (\u201cCheck Yo Self\u201d) and crawl inside a cuckoo clock for the expressive \u201cbeLls.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAYNE KRANTZ Howie 61 waynekrantz.com Among other things\u2014lots of other things, actually\u2014Howie 61 is a taking-stock record. On \u201cI\u2019d Like to Thank My Body,\u201d this New York City jazz-fusion guitarist gives props to his brain and vascular system, rating his earthly frame a \u201cmore or less acceptable container for living\u201d over an elastic funk beat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,4419,10159,4300,4418,4420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982"}],"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=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6984,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}