{"id":283,"date":"2007-11-15T00:44:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T04:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2007-11-19T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T19:05:23","slug":"no-degrees-of-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"No Degrees of Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gaggle (a phalanx? a castleful? a stupefaction?) of New York City musical royalty (and some who should be) swirled through Gizzi&#8217;s Coffeehouse this evening.  I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/myspace.com\/leosongs\" target=\"_blank\">Leo<\/a> (pictured), who, accompanied by the fine artist-guitarist Amura, delivered an intense and energetic batch of socially conscious, playful, powerful, rough-folk songs of his own cockeyed and cantankerous devising.  In attendance, along with your humble correspondent: songwriting legends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umo.com\/artists\/bstewart.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Stewart<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denibonet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elisa Peimer<\/a>, and, performing after Leo, NYC violin legend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denibonet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deni Bonet<\/a>, who not too long ago lent her talents to a Bobby Stewart recording on which I also appeared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30536365@N00\/2028380938\/\" title=\"Leo by jsobel, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2176\/2028380938_ddb80ebdb0_m.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"240\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Leo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deni performed backed by guitarist extraordinaire David Patterson, who had just finished a recording session with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halleydevestern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Halley DeVestern<\/a>, and who had backed up jazz-pop vocalist Cybele Kaufman at one of my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.souloftheblues.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soul of the Blues<\/a> shows.  David P. also appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidsasscer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Sasscer<\/a> album, which, by pure coincidence &#8211; as I&#8217;d never heard of Sasscer until his publicist sent me his new CD recently &#8211; I&#8217;m reviewing right now for my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/features\/new_indie_cds.php\" target=\"_blank\">Indie Round-Up<\/a> column this week.<\/p>\n<p>Got that?  There&#8217;ll be a test tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gaggle (a phalanx? a castleful? a stupefaction?) of New York City musical royalty (and some who should be) swirled through Gizzi&#8217;s Coffeehouse this evening. I went to see Leo (pictured), who, accompanied by the fine artist-guitarist Amura, delivered an intense and energetic batch of socially conscious, playful, powerful, rough-folk songs of his own cockeyed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Degrees of Separation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}