{"id":18595,"date":"2017-05-13T23:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T22:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18595"},"modified":"2017-05-13T23:14:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T22:14:54","slug":"jazz-at-the-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18595","title":{"rendered":"Jazz at the Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511310.jpg\" alt=\"Jazz at the Abbey\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Long Gallery of the Abbey Buildings there has been a Jazz Festival for the last two days.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511303a.jpg\" alt=\"Jazz at the Abbey\" \/><br \/>\nEvents were well attended, and the event brought lots of visitors into Abingdon, and into the Abbey Buildings. The new Mayor, Jan Morter, and her husband, were very much at home watching the Oxfordshire Youth Big Band. Both work with young people musically.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511301.jpg\" alt=\"Jazz at the Abbey\" \/><br \/>\nThe more mature Funk Bake &#8211; pictured here, had a strong driving beat.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511305.jpg\" alt=\"Jazz at the Abbey\" \/><br \/>\nAs with most jazz. the band would start playing the same riff together, and then each of the players would take it off in  their own direction &#8211; improvising. The music is never the same twice. Unlike Gregorian Chants &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511313.jpg\" alt=\"Jazz at the Abbey\" \/><br \/>\nThe monks on their way back from the Abbey Church might have taken some time to appreciate the sound of jazz. The 2017 audience, who came from far and wide, loved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Long Gallery of the Abbey Buildings there has been a Jazz Festival for the last two days. Events were well attended, and the event brought lots of visitors into Abingdon, and into the Abbey Buildings. The new Mayor, Jan Morter, and her husband, were very much at home watching the Oxfordshire Youth Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}