{"id":4997,"date":"2015-04-22T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T16:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/?p=4997"},"modified":"2015-04-22T16:03:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T16:03:53","slug":"old-friends-deep-truths-and-new-music-at-the-annual-nea-jazz-masters-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/22\/old-friends-deep-truths-and-new-music-at-the-annual-nea-jazz-masters-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Friends, Deep Truths and New Music at the Annual NEA Jazz Masters Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4998\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/files\/2015\/04\/group-thumb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4998 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/files\/2015\/04\/group-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"group-thumb\" width=\"620\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEA Chairman Jane Chu with 2015 NEA Jazz Masters Charles Lloyd, Carla Bley, George Coleman, and Joe Segal at the NEA Jazz Masters Reunion Luncheon, hosted by BMI. Photo by Michael G. Stewart<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI checked neither raincoat nor briefcase on my way into Jazz at Lincoln Center\u2019s Rose Hall for the annual National Endowment for the Arts <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.gov\/honors\/jazz\">Jazz Masters <\/a>Award\u00a0Ceremony and Concert.<br \/>\nBut I did check my cynicism\u2014I always do for this thing.<br \/>\nMy thoughts and some excerpts from the acceptance speeches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/news\/story\/1139820\/old-friends-deep-truths-and-new-music-at-the-annual-nea-jazz%20\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked neither raincoat nor briefcase on my way into Jazz at Lincoln Center\u2019s Rose Hall for the annual National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award\u00a0Ceremony and Concert. But I did check my cynicism\u2014I always do for this thing. My thoughts and some excerpts from the acceptance speeches here. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[268,200,269,270,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997"}],"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=4997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/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=4997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}