{"id":1472,"date":"2008-09-29T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2008-09-29T14:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:01:01","slug":"book_benny_green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/09\/book_benny_green\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Benny Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"161\" alt=\"Reluctant Art.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Reluctant%20Art.gif\" width=\"100\" \/><\/span>Benny Green<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FReluctant-Art-Da-Capo-Paperback%2Fdp%2F0306804417&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Reluctant Art<\/em><\/a> (Da Capo). Dave Frishberg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/09\/correspondence_frishberg_on_su.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent message<\/a> to <em>Rifftides<\/em> in which he recommended this book sent me scrambling in haste and embarrassment to obtain a copy. I had never read Green&#8217;s book, subtitled &#8220;Five Studies in the Growth of Jazz&#8221; and should have. There are actually six studies. I am being rewarded by Green&#8217;s insights into Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker. One provocative thought from Green: &#8220;Improvisation is more than a virtue. It is a responsibility demanding a degree of creative fertility which a high percentage of respected jazz musicians simply do not possess.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benny Green, The Reluctant Art (Da Capo). Dave Frishberg&#8217;s recent message to Rifftides in which he recommended this book sent me scrambling in haste and embarrassment to obtain a copy. I had never read Green&#8217;s book, subtitled &#8220;Five Studies in the Growth of Jazz&#8221; and should have. There are actually six studies. I am being [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1472","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\/1472","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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}