{"id":352,"date":"2009-05-18T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2009-05-18T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T17:20:24","slug":"mpomyblogerantz-artist-of-the-week-wayne-shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Mpomy\/Blogerantz Artist Of The Week &#8211; Wayne Shorter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wayne-shorter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-353\" title=\"wayne-shorter\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wayne-shorter-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"wayne-shorter\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wayne-shorter-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wayne-shorter-774x1024.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little hard to understand the gravity of this man&#8217;s achievment.\u00a0 He is, without a doubt, one of the most outstanding American composers ever.\u00a0 He&#8217;s up there with Zappa.\u00a0 He&#8217;s that big, but simply doesn&#8217;t get the credit, most likely because he has always taken things, especially with his solo albums, in his own direction.\u00a0 But, besides being singularly unique and enormously influential, he has also managed to create the most delicate, complex and achingly beautiful music I have ever heard.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to try and start something new with Wayne &#8211; an &#8216;artist of the week&#8217; feature.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll try to share some of my general thoughts and observations on this sight and I&#8217;ll post some music over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogerantz.blogspot.com\/\">Blogerantz<\/a>, and, hopefully, there will be conceptual continuity and rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a little hard to understand the gravity of this man&#8217;s achievment.\u00a0 He is, without a doubt, one of the most outstanding American composers ever.\u00a0 He&#8217;s up there with Zappa.\u00a0 He&#8217;s that big, but simply doesn&#8217;t get the credit, most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[339,4,23],"tags":[1496,100,341,1478,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}