{"id":1114,"date":"2007-10-08T01:04:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T08:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2007-10-08T01:04:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T08:04:30","slug":"jo_stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/10\/jo_stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo Stafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While a bunch of us were standing around waiting to be seated at a restaurant following Saturday night&#8217;s concert at The Seasons (see the previous item), the conversation turned to singers. Jo Stafford came in for prominent and enthusiastic mention. The next morning, I was checking out Marc Myers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/2007\/10\/jo-and-benny.html\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Jazz Wax<\/em><\/a> blog and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/relevance\/search\/jo+stafford\/video\/x1w0bi_jo-staffordthe-gentleman-is-a-dope1_music\"target=\"_blank\">this link <\/a>to a wonderful Stafford performance from 1947. The band is identified as that of her husband, Paul Weston, but it doesn&#8217;t look like Weston conducting. The only player I recognize is the phenomenal guitarist George van Eps.<br \/>\nThe singing is perfection. But then, it&#8217;s Jo Stafford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a bunch of us were standing around waiting to be seated at a restaurant following Saturday night&#8217;s concert at The Seasons (see the previous item), the conversation turned to singers. Jo Stafford came in for prominent and enthusiastic mention. The next morning, I was checking out Marc Myers&#8217; Jazz Wax blog and found this [&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-1114","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\/1114","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=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}