{"id":21693,"date":"2014-06-12T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21693"},"modified":"2014-06-12T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T17:06:22","slug":"cable-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cable-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember When Cable TV Offered Those of Us Who Really Love Music the Chance to Appreciate Music?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia-born\u00a0<span style=\"color: #141823;\"><strong>Jamaaladeen Tacuma<\/strong> just celebrated his birthday this week, on June 10. Happy birthday, Jamaaladeen!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #141823;\">I got turned onto Tacuma through his work with <strong>Ornette Coleman<\/strong>. The first part of the following clip, from a VH1 show he hosted, in which he and a friend manage to play an amazing jam on 2 of the most hideous instruments imaginable, is entertainment enough. Then there&#8217;s a segment during which\u00a0he simply talks music. On a well-heeled, basic cable TV station. Jazz music. Weird music, even by jazz standards. Remember when cable TV offered those of us who really love music the chance to appreciate music? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #141823;\">There was that show with <strong>David Sanborn<\/strong> and his helmet of graying jazz hair\u2014<em>Night Music<\/em>, I think it was called. Even MTV&#8217;s late-night new music show, <em>120 Minutes<\/em>,\u00a0felt like it was programmed for true music lovers. Do we get anything like that now? I haven&#8217;t seen it in a year, but that heavy metal talk show is the closest thing I can think of. That and the actually live performances shown on <em>Austin City Limits<\/em>. Do the\u00a0music stations feature late-night shows that appeal to a younger generation that truly admires the artistry behind <strong>The National<\/strong> or whatever testosterone-free band might bore me to death? Hell, I bet I could get sucked into a nerdy show examining the artistry of The National\u2014not celebrity crap like what it felt like to meet Jason Schwartzman at the VH1 Movies Awards show, or something like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0_LJYychQ4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia-born\u00a0Jamaaladeen Tacuma just celebrated his birthday this week, on June 10. Happy birthday, Jamaaladeen! I got turned onto Tacuma through his work with Ornette Coleman. The first part of the following clip, from a VH1 show he hosted, in which he and a friend manage to play an amazing jam on 2 of the most <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cable-tv\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[107,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}