{"id":6895,"date":"2014-12-18T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T13:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2014-12-18T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T13:03:16","slug":"album-reviews-hugh-hopper-memories-and-frangloband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/18\/album-reviews-hugh-hopper-memories-and-frangloband\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Reviews: Hugh Hopper &#8212; Memories and Frangloband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/hopper_memories.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bassist <strong>Hugh Hopper<\/strong> gained fame \u2013 or what passes for fame within the narrow confines of jazz-rock and progressive circles \u2013 as a member of <strong>Soft Machine<\/strong>. He passed away in 2009, and it happens, Hopper was apparently quite the busy guy. His estate is now involved in a good bit of closet-cleaning, and the results are being released on a ten-disc series. The first of these, <em>Memories<\/em>, is a survey of the material found on the second through tenth. It&#8217;s varied and interesting, though little of this music was intended for release. <em>Frangloband<\/em> documents some of Hopper&#8217;s last recordings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bassist Hugh Hopper gained fame \u2013 or what passes for fame within the narrow confines of jazz-rock and progressive circles \u2013 as a member of Soft Machine. He passed away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,42,49,62,65],"tags":[1023,1994],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-hugh-hopper","tag-soft-machine","cat-19-id","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","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=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}