{"id":23837,"date":"2022-10-09T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=23837"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:03:53","slug":"album-review-jan-hammer-seasons-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/09\/album-review-jan-hammer-seasons-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Jan Hammer \u2013 Seasons Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23838\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jan_hammer_seasons2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jan_hammer_seasons2.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jan_hammer_seasons2-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jan_hammer_seasons2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Listeners of a certain age know Jan Hammer for his work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jeff Beck; younger ones will recall his \u201cMiami Vice Theme.\u201d In recent years his music has often leaned toward new age. But his latest release, <i>Seasons Pt. 2<\/i> synthesizes (so to speak) all of his disparate stylistic excursions. It\u2019s an instrumental set full of classic-sounding keyboard textures, but it has teeth. His strong melodic sense and facile ability to combine a vast array of sounds is well showcased here.<\/p>\n<p>The peerless drumming of Simon Phillips provides some of the rock-solid bottom end on these tracks, and Hammer \u2013 who plays everything else you\u2019ll hear on the set \u2013 masterfully evokes the sound and feel of basses, guitar and whatnot-else through deft use of his keyboard arsenal. (Though I\u2019m pretty sure he\u2019s playing some real stringed instruments here as well.)<\/p>\n<p>A wonderfully evocative set, the album has something of a theme, but as with much of the best instrumental music, the listener\u2019s imagination can take flight in whatever direction it chooses. The music is varied, exploring a wide variety of tonal qualities and emotional directions. It\u2019s thrilling, peaceful, contemplative and propulsive, though obviously not all at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listeners of a certain age know Jan Hammer for his work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jeff Beck; younger ones will recall his \u201cMiami Vice Theme.\u201d In recent years his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32,40,51,62,65],"tags":[3527],"class_list":["post-23837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ambient","category-fusion","category-instrumental","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-jan-hammer","cat-5-id","cat-32-id","cat-40-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23839,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23837\/revisions\/23839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}