{"id":3664,"date":"2020-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/2020\/03\/01\/the-jazz-defenders-scheming-haggis-records\/"},"modified":"2020-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:00:00","slug":"the-jazz-defenders-scheming-haggis-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/2020\/03\/01\/the-jazz-defenders-scheming-haggis-records\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jazz Defenders: Scheming [Haggis Records]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jazz Defenders are a quintet from Bristol led by pianist George Cooper. Their ten track release is filled with engaging hard bop recordings. On the opener &#8220;Top Down Tourism&#8221; Cooper displays a melodic and deliberate style as he&#8217;s accompanied by Nicholas Dover&#8217;s assertive tone on Sax and Nick Malcolm on Trumpet. Matt Brown&#8217;s dynamic drumming and cymbals pushes everyone on the Latin flavoured &#8220;Late&#8221; They slow down the pace on &#8220;Rosie Karima&#8221; and perform a beautiful ballad. throughout this set the band channels the spirit of 60s Blue Note recordings. These compositions show they can hold their own with anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jazz Defenders are a quintet from Bristol led by pianist George Cooper. Their ten track release is filled with engaging hard bop recordings. On the opener &#8220;Top Down Tourism&#8221; Cooper displays a melodic and deliberate style as he&#8217;s accompanied by Nicholas Dover&#8217;s assertive tone on Sax and Nick Malcolm on Trumpet. Matt Brown&#8217;s dynamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basic-soul.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}