{"id":1456,"date":"2020-03-01T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T11:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2020-03-04T17:57:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:57:59","slug":"brakfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"BR\u00c5Kfest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a day! So much great music! Anyway, here&#8217;s some pictures of *me*!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colin_webster\/status\/1233873726556471303\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-01-at-10.59.53.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1188\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1457\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brakimprov\/status\/1233910849988943878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-01-at-10.52.07.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1192\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1458\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brakimprov\/status\/1233910849988943878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-01-at-11.02.16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1196\" height=\"952\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1461\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed in <a href=\"https:\/\/londonjazznews.com\/2020\/03\/04\/brak-festival-of-improvised-music-at-the-hundred-years-gallery\/\">London Jazz News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saxophonist Tom Ward plays with that same vitality as Colin Webster but a touch more of a warm jazz sense. His technical assuredness in using squeaks and harmonics within and around his tonal phrasing led neatly into some almost Rollins-like punchy lyricism. Ward moved over to flute a couple of times which varied the texture (keeping with a sixties vibe) but I think it\u2019s a newer thing for him, with a shorter prosody of phrasing. On sax, he really talks. His pedalling sax with Williams\u2019s bowed bass drew the performance into a powerful doomy sense of a happy end of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a day! So much great music! Anyway, here&#8217;s some pictures of *me*! Reviewed in London Jazz News: &#8220;Saxophonist Tom Ward plays with that same vitality as Colin Webster but a touch more of a warm jazz sense. His technical assuredness in using squeaks and harmonics within and around his tonal phrasing led neatly into&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/?p=1456\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BR\u00c5Kfest!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brak","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madwort.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}