{"id":142,"date":"2020-11-22T23:11:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T23:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2020-11-22T23:11:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T23:11:33","slug":"trumpet-ride-willie-waldman-yellow-dog-jazz-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/22\/trumpet-ride-willie-waldman-yellow-dog-jazz-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpet Ride &#8211; Willie Waldman Yellow Dog Jazz Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <strong>Kent Zimmerman<\/strong> <em>Contributing Editor<\/em>  <em>February 22,2002<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for something way off the post-bop radar screen that&#8217;s steeped in the jazz-rock-hard funk idiom?  Then check out the tune &#8220;Surfin&#8217; Dog&#8221; by Southern California trumpet player Willie Waldman from his indie solo disc, entitled <em>Trumpet Ride.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a professional horn player, Waldman has ventured well beyond safe Jazz undercurrents by playing session and live gigs with Hip-Hoppers Snoop Dogg and Tupac, as well as with Alternative anarchists Perry Farrell and Sublime.  Playing grinding fretless bass on &#8220;Surfin&#8217; Dog&#8221; is Tony Franklin, whom we immediately recognized from his days with rock guitarist Jimmy Page and his first post-Led Zep quartet, the Firm.  Also joining Waldman on this whirling, Bitches Brew-styled jam is electric keyboardist Greg Kurstin, who has notably played with surf doggin&#8217; icons, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kent Zimmerman is a <\/em>Yellow Dog Jazz Report <em>contributing editor and, with brother Keith, co-author of the best seller <\/em>Hell&#8217;s Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell&#8217;s Angels Motorcyle Club.  <em>Their latest book is entitles <\/em>Ridin&#8217; High, Livin&#8217; Free: Hell-Raising Motorcycle Stories, <em>both published by Wm Morrow\/Harper Collins.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kent Zimmerman Contributing Editor February 22,2002 Looking for something way off the post-bop radar screen that&#8217;s steeped in the jazz-rock-hard funk idiom? Then check out the tune &#8220;Surfin&#8217; Dog&#8221; by Southern California trumpet player Willie Waldman from his indie solo disc, entitled Trumpet Ride. As a professional horn player, Waldman has ventured well beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/trumpetride.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williewaldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}