{"id":1439,"date":"2008-08-25T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T17:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2008-08-25T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T17:57:47","slug":"johnny_griffin_memorial_tribut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/08\/johnny_griffin_memorial_tribut\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Griffin Memorial Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers in and around New York City may be interested in this announcement sent by Michael Weiss. <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>CELEBRATING JOHNNY GRIFFIN: A TRIBUTE IN WORDS AND MUSIC <\/p>\n<p>Reminiscences from fellow musicians, family and friends. <\/p>\n<p>Johnny Griffin&#8217;s compositions performed by Johnny&#8217;s longtime rhythm section (Michael Weiss, John Webber and Kenny Washington) with Eric Alexander. Additional performances by Jimmy Heath, Cedar Walton, Ray Drummond and Ben Riley. <\/p>\n<p>SEPTEMBER 14, 2008, 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>St. Peter&#8217;s Church <\/p>\n<p>619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street New York, NY <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The tenor saxophonist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/07\/johnny_griffin_rip.html\" target=\"_blank\">died a month ago <\/a>at his home in France. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers in and around New York City may be interested in this announcement sent by Michael Weiss. CELEBRATING JOHNNY GRIFFIN: A TRIBUTE IN WORDS AND MUSIC Reminiscences from fellow musicians, family and friends. Johnny Griffin&#8217;s compositions performed by Johnny&#8217;s longtime rhythm section (Michael Weiss, John Webber and Kenny Washington) with Eric Alexander. Additional performances by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1439","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\/1439","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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}