{"id":10928,"date":"2019-02-17T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T01:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2019-02-23T13:20:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T21:20:27","slug":"buddy-defrancos-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/02\/buddy-defrancos-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy DeFranco&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/173609523.jpgx_-e1550453721238.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-10927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/173609523.jpgx_-e1550453721238.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a>What is your favorite key? Assuming that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not Z-minor, you will find it in the video below. Vibraharpist (vibraphonist, if you prefer) Terry Gibbs explains in his introduction. Gibbs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s companions in the key-change extravaganza are Buddy DeFranco, clarinet; Herb Ellis, guitar; Larry Novak, piano; Milt Hinton, bass; and Butch Miles, drums. It was taped in 1991 at a concert in Japan. It was fitting that this video was posted on <em>youtube<\/em> today because this would have been DeFranco\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 96th birthday. He was born in 1923 and died in 2014.<\/p>\n<div align=\"&quot;center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gpAv6HrAfbk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gibbs, a year younger than DeFranco, has cut back on performing, but makes occasional appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Buddy DeFranco, RIP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is your favorite key? Assuming that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not Z-minor, you will find it in the video below. Vibraharpist (vibraphonist, if you prefer) Terry Gibbs explains in his introduction. Gibbs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s companions in the key-change extravaganza are Buddy DeFranco, clarinet; Herb Ellis, guitar; Larry Novak, piano; Milt Hinton, bass; and Butch Miles, drums. It was taped [&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-10928","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\/10928","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=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}