{"id":11006,"date":"2019-03-23T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T18:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=11006"},"modified":"2019-03-23T11:49:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T18:49:44","slug":"dave-frishberg-is-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/03\/dave-frishberg-is-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Frishberg Is 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Unknown-e1553366650721.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Unknown-e1553366650721.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>Today is Dave Frishberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1933. Frishberg is a splendid pianist who has worked with Zoot Sims, Bill Berry, Ben Webster Carmen McRae and too many other leading musicians to list. His greatest fame, however, has come through his songs. Many of Frishberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pieces have become parts of the standard repertoire, among them \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Hip,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peel Me A Grape,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dodger Blue,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Van Lingle Mungo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and (with Johnny Mandel), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You Are There.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Preparing this recognition, I was surprised to find that despite his profusion of recordings, there are surprisingly few Frishberg performances on video. Here is one of those rarities, Frishberg on the <em>Tonight Show<\/em> in the days when Johnny Carson was the host.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D4LSr9vUqbA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to Dave Frishberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Dave Frishberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1933. Frishberg is a splendid pianist who has worked with Zoot Sims, Bill Berry, Ben Webster Carmen McRae and too many other leading musicians to list. His greatest fame, however, has come through his songs. Many of Frishberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pieces have become parts [&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-11006","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\/11006","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=11006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}