{"id":1125,"date":"2007-10-22T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2007-10-22T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:26:39","slug":"a_benny_carter_concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/10\/a_benny_carter_concert\/","title":{"rendered":"A Benny Carter Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No longer being in New York has disadvantages&#8211;not being able to attend a concert of Benny Carter&#8217;s music, for instance. Carter died in 2003. He would be 100 years old now.  The concert over the weekend was the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra&#8217;s season opener. Ben Ratliff&#8217;s account in <em>The New York Times<\/em> makes me sorry to have missed it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If there was a star, it was a whole bloc within a band: the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra&#8217;s saxophone section, playing the tightly harmonized passages that were among Carter&#8217;s signatures.<br \/>\nCarter&#8217;s arrangement of &#8220;All of Me,&#8221; from 1940, is a good example. After an introduction, it began with the four saxophonists playing two choruses of harmonized lockstep, running a rewritten version of the melody through the chords, and it had everything an individual solo can have: melodic shape, hesitation, easy swing, double-timing, open space. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of Ratliff&#8217;s review, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/22\/arts\/music\/22cart.html?_r=2&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. Links to some of Carter&#8217;s best recordings are in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2007\/08\/benny_carter_1.html\">this <em>Rifftides<\/em> piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No longer being in New York has disadvantages&#8211;not being able to attend a concert of Benny Carter&#8217;s music, for instance. Carter died in 2003. He would be 100 years old now. The concert over the weekend was the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra&#8217;s season opener. Ben Ratliff&#8217;s account in The New York Times makes me [&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-1125","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\/1125","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=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}