{"id":9672,"date":"2013-05-08T00:34:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:34:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:34:57","slug":"joe-lovano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/joe-lovano\/","title":{"rendered":"JOE LOVANO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9673\" alt=\"Joe-Lovano-M-Review-No25\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Joe-Lovano-M-Review-No25.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Joe-Lovano-M-Review-No25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Joe-Lovano-M-Review-No25-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>JOE LOVANO<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Cross Culture<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Blue Note]<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his 22 previous Blue Note albums, Joe Lovano has proven one of the most versatile musicians in contemporary jazz. The formation of Us Five has invigorated the saxophonist and composer, and the quintet\u2019s third album is astoundingly moving. Accompanied by his regulars\u2014pianist James Weidman, bassist Esperanza Spalding and drummers Otis Brown III and Francisco Mela\u2014as well as bassist Peter Slavov and guitarist Lionel Loueke, Lovano introduces exotic woodwind and percussion, allowing his players to explore international flavors. The songs are mostly originals, but Lovano likely provided little more than loose frameworks. When both drummers and bassists are fired up, the rhythmic complexities border on overwhelming, but Lovano is enough of a leader to rein things in. With Loueke\u2019s African-rooted guitar and Weidman\u2019s smartly crafted lines adding rhythmic and melodic depth, <i>Cross Culture<\/i> is rife with the kinds of surprises that jazz aficionados dream of. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOE LOVANO Cross Culture [Blue Note] Over the course of his 22 previous Blue Note albums, Joe Lovano has proven one of the most versatile musicians in contemporary jazz. The formation of Us Five has invigorated the saxophonist and composer, and the quintet\u2019s third album is astoundingly moving. Accompanied by his regulars\u2014pianist James Weidman, bassist [&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":[196,1485,6443,3232,6427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672"}],"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=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9674,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions\/9674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}