{"id":9443,"date":"2011-09-30T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9443"},"modified":"2011-09-30T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T15:04:33","slug":"your-three-favorite-jazz-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-three-favorite-jazz-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Three Favorite Jazz Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZqWLSe0FS0I?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Here&#8217;s a question I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask Townspeople, a question that&#8217;s likely a bit outside many of our participants&#8217; comfort zone, but I hope you have the stones to answer, even with limited knowledge of the subject matter: <em><strong>What are your three (3) favorite jazz recordings (individual songs, not entire albums)?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because this topic is outside my comfort zone I&#8217;m not going to be a hard ass regarding your definition of the term &#8220;jazz.&#8221; If you want to suggest a vocal performance of a &#8220;standard,&#8221; Chuck Mangione&#8217;s &#8220;Feel So Good,&#8221; or some Lydia Lunch &#8220;No Wave&#8221; track, be my guest.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you really know your shit and welcome the chance to dig into this topic, I encourage you to specify the recordings you favor, not just throw out any one of an artist&#8217;s dozen takes on the same track.<\/p>\n<p>Before I forget, here are my\u00a0three favorite jazz recordings, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Coltrane, &#8220;Ol\u00e9&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ornette Coleman, &#8220;Ramblin'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>James Blood Ulmer, &#8220;Layout&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask Townspeople, a question that&#8217;s likely a bit outside many of our participants&#8217; comfort zone, but I hope you have the stones to answer, even with limited knowledge of the subject matter: What are your three (3) favorite jazz recordings (individual songs, not entire albums)? Because this topic <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-three-favorite-jazz-recordings\/' 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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9443"}],"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=9443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}