{"id":5589,"date":"2026-01-05T17:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:22:43","slug":"jazz-star-jessica-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/jazz-star-jessica-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Star Jessica Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jan\/05\/jessica-williams-jazz-prepared-piano-blue-abstraction\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian is a fine piece<\/a> on how Jessica Williams found and used prepared piano as an extension of her musical world. I can&#8217;t find her album &#8220;Blue Abstraction&#8221; yet, but wanted to leave this marker for future use.<br \/>\nWilliams died in 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dave Brubeck called her a great and Mary Lou Williams gave her advice. But the prodigy grew frustrated with jazz, quit and started dismantling her instrument. A superb new reissue showcases her findings<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Guardian is a fine piece on how Jessica Williams found and used prepared piano as an extension of her musical world. I can&#8217;t find her album &#8220;Blue Abstraction&#8221; yet, but wanted to leave this marker for future use. Williams died in 2022. Dave Brubeck called her a great and Mary Lou Williams gave &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/jazz-star-jessica-williams\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4314,7,8,2704,2148],"tags":[5200,5203,3106,5201,5202],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5589","6":"format-standard","7":"category-arts","8":"category-faits-divers","9":"category-feminism","10":"category-modern-music","11":"category-obituaries","12":"post_tag-dave-brubeck","13":"post_tag-errol-garner","14":"post_tag-jazz","15":"post_tag-prepared-piano","16":"post_tag-thelonious-monk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5590,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}