{"id":9762,"date":"2013-05-08T09:44:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2013-05-08T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:45:16","slug":"king-django","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/king-django\/","title":{"rendered":"KING DJANGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9763\" alt=\"KING-DJANGO-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/KING-DJANGO-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/KING-DJANGO-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/KING-DJANGO-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>KING DJANGO<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Anywhere I Roam<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>kingdjango.com<\/p>\n<p>For two decades, Stubborn Records founder Jeff \u201cKing Django\u201d Baker has kept the East Coast safe for ska and traditional Jamaican music. Here, the singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist pulls together a dozen tracks cut with friends and associates, and while all feature variations of the island\u2019s distinctive offbeat bounce, Django keeps things as diverse as possible. In addition to swift, snappy ska tunes, the King drops plenty of smooth-grooving rocksteady and bass-heavy reggae. He\u2019s especially good when he plays up the boss-man shtick and grabs the mic for some patois-laced braggadocio toasting, as on the title track, where the Jewish Brooklynite rhymes \u201cspliff,\u201d \u201cskiff\u201d and \u201criff,\u201d grinning all the while.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KING DJANGO Anywhere I Roam kingdjango.com For two decades, Stubborn Records founder Jeff \u201cKing Django\u201d Baker has kept the East Coast safe for ska and traditional Jamaican music. Here, the singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist pulls together a dozen tracks cut with friends and associates, and while all feature variations of the island\u2019s distinctive offbeat [&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":[196,6499,10159,6498,6500,6467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762"}],"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=9762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9766,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions\/9766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}