{"id":113,"date":"2009-03-17T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=113"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:21:41","slug":"sax-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Sax Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_115\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115 \" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"mparker-westcott-sw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mparker-westcott-sw.jpg\" alt=\"Maceo Parker\" width=\"374\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mparker-westcott-sw.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mparker-westcott-sw-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maceo Parker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Music from the saxophone can be described as hard, harsh, munificent, ethereal, soft, muted, brash or clean.\u00a0 But Maceo Parker asks, &#8220;whatchu\u00a0know about funk?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parker\u00a0played a three-hour set Monday night at the Westcott Theater that was a musical mind trip.\u00a0 The show featured tributes to New Orleans jazz, the folk soul of Ray Charles, rapid-fire GoGo of Chuck Brown and even a funky introduction to\u00a0Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Hamlet<\/em> (&#8220;To Be or Not to Be&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Parker&#8217;s superior musicianship and ebullient stage presence are obviously\u00a0the keys to his longevity. In his hands, the future of funk is secure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music from the saxophone can be described as hard, harsh, munificent, ethereal, soft, muted, brash or clean.\u00a0 But Maceo Parker asks, &#8220;whatchu\u00a0know about funk?&#8221; Parker\u00a0played a three-hour set Monday night at the Westcott Theater that was a musical mind trip.\u00a0 The show featured tributes to New Orleans jazz, the folk soul of Ray Charles, rapid-fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[177,40,241,4999,478,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22840,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/22840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}