{"id":62,"date":"2011-11-30T20:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/?p=62"},"modified":"2011-11-30T22:36:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:36:32","slug":"madrigal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/2011\/11\/30\/madrigal\/","title":{"rendered":"M is for Madrigal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Now out of print.<\/strong> This collection of seven jazz poems, anchored in the politics and musical energy of the 1960s, revealed Nii Ayikwei Parkes as a poet with a keen ear for both tone and undertone. Three of the poems &#8211; <em>So What<\/em>, <em>All Blues<\/em> and <em>Someday My Prince Will Come<\/em> &#8211; were recorded in a one-night-only session with young UK saxophonist, Andre Brown, in London; the project, recorded at the world famous Poetry Caf\u00e9, is called <strong><em>Nocturne of Phrase.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Jazzwise magazine describes the listening experience as the sliding of &#8216;penetrating verses into the path of the agile young saxophonist Andre Brown&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now out of print. This collection of seven jazz poems, anchored in the politics and musical energy of the 1960s, revealed Nii Ayikwei Parkes as a poet with a keen ear for both tone and undertone. Three of the poems &#8211; So What, All Blues and Someday My Prince Will Come &#8211; were recorded in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}