{"id":8322,"date":"2019-07-31T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/02\/789-miles\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:28:48","slug":"789-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/789-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of Olson&#8217;s &#8216;789 Miles&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Matt Olson&#8217;s latest CD project &#8220;789 Miles&#8221; wins praise from Mark Gilbert of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jazzjournal.co.uk\/2019\/07\/31\/matt-olson-789-miles\/\">Jazz Journal<\/a><\/strong>. For the trio project, the Furman professor of saxophone and jazz studies director enlisted the artistry of his current and former jazz students. &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Five of the pieces are by Furman students or alumni and the real-world talent of the leader evidently extends to his charges, their pieces impressive modern mainstream structures,&#8221; writes Gilbert. Read the full review of &#8220;789 Miles&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jazzjournal.co.uk\/2019\/07\/31\/matt-olson-789-miles\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Olson&#8217;s latest CD project &#8220;789 Miles&#8221; wins praise from Mark Gilbert of Jazz Journal. For the trio project, the Furman professor of saxophone and jazz studies director enlisted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}