{"id":3138,"date":"2014-01-27T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2014-01-27T12:52:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:52:18","slug":"divergent-and-rambling-thoughts-about-jazz-mastery-at-nea-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/27\/divergent-and-rambling-thoughts-about-jazz-mastery-at-nea-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Divergent (and Rambling) Thoughts About Jazz Mastery at NEA Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3268\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3268\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/2014\/01\/divergent-and-rambling-thoughts-about-jazz-mastery-at-nea-celebration\/unnamed\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3268\" title=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/files\/2014\/01\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"748\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Aldana and Jimmy Heath performing at the NEA Jazz Masters celebration\/ Photo by Michael G. Stewart, courtesy of NEA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It was long. It was rambling. And, especially when a photographer jockeying for position blocked Wynton Marsalis\u2019s view of the teleprompter, making him stop midsentence, it had awkward moments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Awards ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center\u2019s Allen Room earlier this month, hosted by Marsalis and CNN\u2019s Soledad O\u2019Brien, nevertheless reinforced some qualities that seem essential to jazz mastery, especially a searching spirit and a need for self-expression. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/news\/story\/1004220\/at-nea-celebration-divergent-and-rambling-thoughts-about-jazz\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s my story.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was long. It was rambling. And, especially when a photographer jockeying for position blocked Wynton Marsalis\u2019s view of the teleprompter, making him stop midsentence, it had awkward moments. The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Awards ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center\u2019s Allen Room earlier this month, hosted by Marsalis and CNN\u2019s Soledad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/27\/divergent-and-rambling-thoughts-about-jazz-mastery-at-nea-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Divergent (and Rambling) Thoughts About Jazz Mastery at NEA Celebration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}