{"id":10315,"date":"2018-09-29T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10315"},"modified":"2018-09-29T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:37:27","slug":"weekend-extra-ray-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/09\/weekend-extra-ray-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Ray Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ray-Bryant-Epic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ray-Bryant-Epic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ray-Bryant-Epic.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ray-Bryant-Epic-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ray-Bryant-Epic-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ray-Bryant-Epic-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why? Because he was Ray Bryant (1931-2011), and a short piece from his 1956 album <em>Ray Bryant Trio,<\/em> (now retitled <em>Cry Me A River<\/em>) has been rising out of the past and repeating in my head for days. Fair warning: It may repeat in your head, too.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Bryant, piano; Wyatt Reuther, bass; Osie Johnson, drums, May 11, 1956. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bryant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s irresistible \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pawn Ticket.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ilfjI5tMQtU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Oddly, Bryant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cry-Me-River-Ray-Bryant\/dp\/B00I5938IE\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1538258728&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Ray+Bryant+Cry+Me+A+River+album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cry Me A River<\/a><\/em> album (formerly known simply as <em>Ray Bryant Trio<\/em>) now seems to be available only as an MP3, not a CD. It was first issued as an LP on Epic Records when Epic was a jazz label, before it became home to Mariah Carey, Ted Nugent, Meat Loaf, Sly &amp; The Family Stone and other rockers. Whatever you call Bryant&#8217;s album, it is one of the great trio recordings of the mid-sixties.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Because he was Ray Bryant (1931-2011), and a short piece from his 1956 album Ray Bryant Trio, (now retitled Cry Me A River) has been rising out of the past and repeating in my head for days. Fair warning: It may repeat in your head, too. Ray Bryant, piano; Wyatt Reuther, bass; Osie Johnson, [&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-10315","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\/10315","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=10315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}