{"id":81,"date":"2009-08-11T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2009-08-11T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:02:56","slug":"rhythm-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/rhythm-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhythm Section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sat in with Ann Arbor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/firstflightfunk\">First Flight<\/a> the other night, and received a very nice compliment afterwards.  Someone commented that it was nice to have a horn player that rhythmically interacted with the rhythm section.  Now, I&#8217;m not saying I have it all figured out, but it was nice to be noticed for something I have worked to develop.<\/p>\n<p>Relating to that point, in jazz-related styles, I often consider the &#8220;rhythm section&#8221; to really include the entire ensemble.  Among many of my musical peers (not &#8220;pros,&#8221; but working musicians getting on their feet), this seems to be a point that is lost on them.  Too often are horn players ready to simply stand up and move their fingers, with an emphasis on melodic flare as opposed to musical <em>interaction<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t agree, consider this: if you&#8217;re not playing <em>with<\/em> your fellow musicians, then why are you standing on stage with them in the first place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat in with Ann Arbor&#8217;s First Flight the other night, and received a very nice compliment afterwards. Someone commented that it was nice to have a horn player that rhythmically interacted with the rhythm section. Now, I&#8217;m not saying I have it all figured out, but it was nice to be noticed for something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}