{"id":1499,"date":"2012-10-23T17:21:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2012-10-23T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T17:21:29","slug":"uncle-tomming-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/10\/uncle-tomming-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle tomming games"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><em>But you got a lot of criticism for [using wah-wah pedals on horns] that. Why\u2019d you go in that direction?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t see it as going in any direction. I just see it as playing music of today, contemporary music. For me, the first guy who did that was Coleman Hawkins. Coleman always played with the young\u2019uns. He was the guy who hired Thelonious Monk. He worked with Max Roach and Eric Dolphy. He never went back to playing Louis Armstrong music. <strong><u>That\u2019s why I have kind of a problem when I see the New Orleans guys going back playing that old music. For me, that\u2019s almost like Uncle Tomming<\/u><\/strong>. I love that music. I listen to it. But those guys did that.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Bartz\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Bartz<\/a> in Wax Poetic issue 52.<\/p>\n<p>That is how I feel when I see that:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-1eqt5VE8mFI\/UIW55PEEhiI\/AAAAAAAAA5s\/6Kxp_sEanJc\/s800\/comeonnow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are 2012 games. Guys. It\u2019s too much out of our times. It\u2019s not a matter of 2D or small budgets, we shouldn\u2019t copy to perfection what games looked, sounded and felt like 25 or 30 years ago. It\u2019s almost like we don\u2019t believe that they can get any better than that. It\u2019s like we\u2019re hooked on a nostalgia binge that just doesn\u2019t feel like going forward with our medium.<\/p>\n<p>There isn\u2019t enough experimentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But you got a lot of criticism for [using wah-wah pedals on horns] that. Why\u2019d you go in that direction? I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t see it as going in any direction. I just see it as playing music of today, contemporary music. For me, the first guy who did that was Coleman Hawkins. Coleman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}