{"id":1441,"date":"2008-08-28T12:39:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T19:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2008-08-28T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T19:39:48","slug":"diversion_marimba_queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/08\/diversion_marimba_queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversion: Marimba Queens Meet Insane Bassist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>Rifftides<\/em> reader David Peterkofsky inquired about modern-day jazz marimba players. In the course of searching, I ran across a 1940s soundie with marimbists galore. This has little&#8221;\u00a0to do with jazz, but it&#8217;s an opportunity to see&#8221;\u00a0a bass player who makes Chubby Jackson seem catatonic.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8221;\u00a0<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jCYWaK-3cdw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p>As for Mr. Peterkofsky&#8217;s question, Bobby Hutcherson, Stefon Harris, Dave Samuels, Cal Tjader, Mike Mainieri, Emil Richards&#8221;\u00a0and Gary Burton have all used marimba as well as vibes. If&#8221;\u00a0readers have leads to other current marimba soloists, please use the comment link below to let us know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides reader David Peterkofsky inquired about modern-day jazz marimba players. In the course of searching, I ran across a 1940s soundie with marimbists galore. This has little&#8221;\u00a0to do with jazz, but it&#8217;s an opportunity to see&#8221;\u00a0a bass player who makes Chubby Jackson seem catatonic.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 As for Mr. Peterkofsky&#8217;s question, Bobby Hutcherson, Stefon Harris, Dave [&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-1441","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\/1441","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=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}