{"id":57,"date":"2010-06-09T21:31:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T20:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2013-12-24T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T14:22:02","slug":"improvise-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Improvise Please"},"content":{"rendered":"

To Van Iterson, there are no boundaries or set styles in music: jazz rock, fusion, cross over, acoustic jazz. \u2018The balance has shifted towards acoustic jazz\u2019, he comments. \u2018Not consciously, it just happened. I like it all, as long as there is room to improvise\u2019. And jazz has always been there, from his childhood onwards. His father was an amateur jazz pianist with a large record collection. When Martijn was 9 he started guitar lessons, from 15 onwards he was playing at the Leiden Jazz Caf\u00e9 \u2018The Duke\u2019. \u2018There was jazz there almost every day, the generation just a bit older than mine played there: Ben van der Dungen, Jarmo Hoogendijk, Toon Roos and pianist Cees Slinger, every week with a guest musician. So I just absorbed it all! Now and again I played with them, they were so much better than I was \u2013 very good to stretch your limits!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Van Iterson, there are no boundaries or set styles in music: jazz rock, fusion, cross over, acoustic jazz. \u2018The balance has shifted towards acoustic jazz\u2019, he comments. \u2018Not consciously, it just happened. I like it all, as long as there is room to improvise\u2019. And jazz has always been there, from his childhood onwards. His father was an amateur jazz pianist with a large record collection. When Martijn was 9 he started guitar lessons, from 15 onwards he was playing at the Leiden Jazz Caf\u00e9 \u2018The Duke\u2019. \u2018There was jazz there almost every day, the generation just a bit …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martijnvaniterson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}