{"id":1215,"date":"2008-02-05T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2008-02-05T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T09:01:00","slug":"book_gary_giddins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/02\/book_gary_giddins\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Gary Giddins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Giddins, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWeather-Bird-Jazz-Second-Century%2Fdp%2FB000FA4VF0%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1202196460%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Weather Bird: Jazz At The Dawn Of Its Second Century<\/em><\/a> (Oxford). I take my time getting through Giddins&#8217;s big compilations of his columns, reviews and essays. This one was beside my bed for a couple of years. I savored it a piece at a time, enjoying insights like this about Erroll Garner: <strong><em>&#8220;Two things invariably keep the train on the track. First, he swings hard enough to allay reservations; if he has charge of your foot, he can get to your mind. Second, and more impressively, he improvises with a matchless lucidity that allows people who glaze over at the thought of improvisation to follow Garner&#8217;s most fanciful inventions.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> And this, in a chapter called &#8220;How Come Jazz Isn&#8217;t Dead?&#8221;: <em><strong>&#8220;For half a century, each generation mourned anew the passing of jazz because each idealized the particular jazz of its youth.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Or, as Woody Herman, surveying the crowd at a dance he was playing, told me, &#8220;These people haven&#8217;t listened to anything new since high school.&#8221; Giddins, as they say, gets it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Giddins, Weather Bird: Jazz At The Dawn Of Its Second Century (Oxford). I take my time getting through Giddins&#8217;s big compilations of his columns, reviews and essays. This one was beside my bed for a couple of years. I savored it a piece at a time, enjoying insights like this about Erroll Garner: &#8220;Two [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","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=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}