{"id":998,"date":"2010-08-16T11:56:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=998"},"modified":"2010-08-16T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:57:09","slug":"jazz-mafia-brass-bows-and-beats-jazzmafia-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/jazz-mafia-brass-bows-and-beats-jazzmafia-com\/","title":{"rendered":"JAZZ MAFIA + Brass, Bows and Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Brass-Bows-and-Beats-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-999\" title=\"Brass-Bows-and-Beats-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Brass-Bows-and-Beats-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"Brass, Bows and Beats\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Brass-Bows-and-Beats-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Brass-Bows-and-Beats-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>J<\/strong><strong>AZZ MAFIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Brass, Bows and Beats<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazzmafia.com\" target=\"_blank\">jazzmafia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doggedly blurring boundaries between genres, Jazz Mafia\u2019s music seems a bundle of contradictions. After all, reconciling an entire jazz orchestra and a small army of musical virtuosos with hip-hop rhythms, rappers, singers and MCs would appear tough enough in the studio, but particularly unwieldy in concert. So it\u2019s impressive that on the aptly named live disc <em>Brass, Bows and Beats<\/em>, this extraordinary ensemble fearlessly veers from one style to another, often in the course of a single selection. It also finds songs such as \u201cSweet Memory\u201d and \u201cCommunity 2.0\u201d balancing freewheeling improvisation with lush orchestrated arrangements. Composer, conductor and arranger Adam Theis pulls these disparate elements together and somehow keeps it all cohesive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAZZ MAFIA Brass, Bows and Beats jazzmafia.com Doggedly blurring boundaries between genres, Jazz Mafia\u2019s music seems a bundle of contradictions. After all, reconciling an entire jazz orchestra and a small army of musical virtuosos with hip-hop rhythms, rappers, singers and MCs would appear tough enough in the studio, but particularly unwieldy in concert. So it\u2019s [&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":[196,595,594,10159,593,596,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}