{"id":1039,"date":"2007-08-22T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2007-08-22T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T08:04:00","slug":"correspondence_on_harry_james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/08\/correspondence_on_harry_james\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence: On Harry James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record producer, writer and all-&#8217;round musician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzsuite.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Bill Kirchner<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1995, I programmed and did the liner notes for <em>Harry James: Verve Jazz Masters 55<\/em>, a CD compilation of James&#8217; MGM recordings from 1959 to &#8217;64.  These recordings are among James&#8217; best from a jazz standpoint;  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FVerve-Jazz-Masters-Harry-James%2Fdp%2FB00000471L%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1187756854%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">CD is still available<\/a>.<br \/>\nMy thanks to trumpeter\/bandleader\/historian Dean Pratt&#8211;much more of a James authority than I am&#8211;who hipped me to these recordings in 1993 when I was working on the Smithsonian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBig-Band-Renaissance-Various-Artists%2Fdp%2FB0000017SR%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1187757002%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Big Band Renaissance<\/em><\/a> boxed set.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record producer, writer and all-&#8217;round musician Bill Kirchner writes: In 1995, I programmed and did the liner notes for Harry James: Verve Jazz Masters 55, a CD compilation of James&#8217; MGM recordings from 1959 to &#8217;64. These recordings are among James&#8217; best from a jazz standpoint; the CD is still available. My thanks to trumpeter\/bandleader\/historian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-1039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","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=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}