{"id":777,"date":"2012-04-27T12:26:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T10:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2012-04-27T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T10:26:14","slug":"how-bass-solos-ruined-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"How bass Solos Ruined Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Bass solos suck. Let&#8217;s face it, the ponderous, unwieldy bottom feeder is the least interesting jazz instrument, lacking even the visual appeal of drum solos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 says Alan Kurtz at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazz.com\/jazz-blog\/2008\/5\/19\/how-bass-solos-ruined-jazz\">\u00a0www.jazz.com<\/a>. In his opinion, one man changed it all: Scott LaFaro. He <em>\u201eperversely transformed the conventional trio from a pianist supported by bass and drums to a bassist backed by piano and drums.\u201c<br \/>\n<\/em>Scott LaFaro, the Popeye of Jazz, who makes Lennie Tristano run away during a concert set?!?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bass solos suck. Let&#8217;s face it, the ponderous, unwieldy bottom feeder is the least interesting jazz instrument, lacking even the visual appeal of drum solos. \u2026 says Alan Kurtz at\u00a0www.jazz.com. In his opinion, one man changed it all: Scott LaFaro. He \u201eperversely transformed the conventional trio from a pianist supported by bass and drums to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}