{"id":1122,"date":"2007-10-18T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2007-10-18T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T08:05:00","slug":"the_bird_and_ron_mccroby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/10\/the_bird_and_ron_mccroby\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bird And Ron McCroby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <em>Down Beat<\/em> editor Jack Tracy has always had an ear for fresh young talent. He sent <a href=\"http:\/\/br.youtube.com\/watch?v=xGJaz64lrJ4\"target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> to video of a blues-singing bird &#8211; the avian variety.<br \/>\nCould it be the reincarnation of Rob McCroby (1934-2002)? McCroby&#8217;s recordings for Concord, something of a sensation in the 1980s, have never been reissued on CD. To see a compilation of his television appearances, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccroby.com\/pucculo.html\"target=\"_blank\">this web site<\/a>. You may not want to sit through all twenty minutes, but there&#8217;s no denying that McCroby could blow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Down Beat editor Jack Tracy has always had an ear for fresh young talent. He sent this link to video of a blues-singing bird &#8211; the avian variety. Could it be the reincarnation of Rob McCroby (1934-2002)? McCroby&#8217;s recordings for Concord, something of a sensation in the 1980s, have never been reissued on CD. [&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-1122","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\/1122","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=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}