{"id":108,"date":"2005-08-19T01:04:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T08:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=108"},"modified":"2005-08-19T01:04:45","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T08:04:45","slug":"comment_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/08\/comment_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jim Brown writes from Chicago<\/em>:<br \/>\nI concur that <em>Lucky Strikes <\/em>and <em>Tricotism<\/em> are primo Lucky Thompson, and probably his best, but don&#8217;t forget his very important contributions to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=ASIN\/B000005HH0\/qid%3D1124569779\/sr%3D11-1\/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1\"target=\"_blank\">Cuban Fire<\/a><\/em>, Johnny Richards fine mid-50&#8217;s work for the Kenton band. Richards had been around for quite a while by then, but this was his first major work. It may be the one for which he is best remembered, and with good reason. I also like his writing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=ASIN\/B000005H8M\/qid%3D1124569908\/sr%3D11-1\/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Adventures in Time<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Brown writes from Chicago: I concur that Lucky Strikes and Tricotism are primo Lucky Thompson, and probably his best, but don&#8217;t forget his very important contributions to Cuban Fire, Johnny Richards fine mid-50&#8217;s work for the Kenton band. Richards had been around for quite a while by then, but this was his first major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-108","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\/108","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=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}