{"id":10168,"date":"2018-09-03T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T07:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2018-09-02T23:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T06:23:32","slug":"for-labor-day-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/09\/for-labor-day-work\/","title":{"rendered":"For Labor Day: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Work\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Thelonious-Monk-Pure-Monk-451608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Thelonious-Monk-Pure-Monk-451608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Thelonious-Monk-Pure-Monk-451608.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Thelonious-Monk-Pure-Monk-451608-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The admonition above may seem contradictory, since Labor Day was designed to honor&#8221;\u00a0those who labor by giving them the day off. We presume that workers in the US and in Canada (where this is <em>Labour<\/em> Day), are observing the intent with picnics, ball games, jugs of lemonade and family festivities of all kinds. It is unlikely that Thelonious Monk (pictured) had Labor Day in mind when he composed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Work\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for his first Prestige recording session. But for our purposes, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say that Monk intended this ingenious melody as a tribute to working men and women everywhere. Monk, bassist Gary Mapp and drummer Art Blakey recorded the piece on October 15, 1952. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s listen to it together on Labor Day, 2018. &#8221;\u00a0(Despite the cover information, Sonny Rollins does not appear on this track.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fUZq2_3QrbQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The complete collection of Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Prestige recordings has been released in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ovJ9b8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this 3-CD box<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Happy Labor Day to all <em>Rifftides<\/em> Readers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The admonition above may seem contradictory, since Labor Day was designed to honor&#8221;\u00a0those who labor by giving them the day off. We presume that workers in the US and in Canada (where this is Labour Day), are observing the intent with picnics, ball games, jugs of lemonade and family festivities of all kinds. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}