{"id":3076,"date":"2015-02-17T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2015-02-17T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:46:58","slug":"stevie-wonder-on-duke-ellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2015\/02\/stevie-wonder-on-duke-ellington.html","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder on Duke Ellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;mbl7Kvnu4O02Y4xkk8gCu7d8lD7hlfYk&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>THERE&#8217;S been a lot of talk about Mr. Wonder lately, largely because of the recent concerts. It reminds me of what may be my favorite Stevie <a title=\"Sir Duke \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hmKshpLXnxE\" target=\"_blank\">song<\/a>, from\u00a0a record my parents had when I was a kid and which I pretty much wore out.<\/p>\n<p>Cool that he is tipping his hat to another piano player.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only seen Stevie play once, at the 80th birthday party for jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell, at UCLA&#8217;s Royce Hall.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/220px-Songs_in_the_key_of_life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/220px-Songs_in_the_key_of_life.jpg\" alt=\"220px-Songs_in_the_key_of_life\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/220px-Songs_in_the_key_of_life.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/220px-Songs_in_the_key_of_life-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/220px-Songs_in_the_key_of_life-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/220px-Songs_in_the_key_of_life-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;mbl7Kvnu4O02Y4xkk8gCu7d8lD7hlfYk&#8221;] THERE&#8217;S been a lot of talk about Mr. Wonder lately, largely because of the recent concerts. It reminds me of what may be my favorite Stevie song, from\u00a0a record my parents had when I was a kid and which I pretty much wore out. Cool that he is tipping his hat to another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,58,107],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jazz","7":"category-music","8":"category-soul-music","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}