{"id":1513,"date":"2008-11-02T23:04:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T07:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2008-11-02T23:04:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T07:04:22","slug":"herb_geller_at_80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/11\/herb_geller_at_80\/","title":{"rendered":"Herb Geller At 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Herb Geller is eighty years old today. The alto saxophonist was the performing guest of honor tonight in a tribute concert by the NDR (North German Radio) Big Band. From 1965 to 1993,<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Geller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"88\" alt=\"Geller.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2008\/11\/Geller-thumb-129x88.jpg\" width=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/span>Geller was a star soloist of the NDR, one of the best large jazz aggregations in the world. The concert was in the NDR&#8217;s venerable Rolf Liebermann studio. Since his mandatory retirement at sixty-five, Geller has been at least as busy as he was during the previous forty-seven years of his career. One of the major post-Charlie Parker alto soloists, he plays frequently in Europe and the United States. His most recent CD is <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAt-Movies-Herb-Geller%2Fdp%2FB000VOEH0Y&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Herb Geller At The Movies<\/a><\/em> (Hep). His latest video is this one:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hp3dQH5h-xQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mLel8sI6c3I\" target=\"_blank\">This video<\/a> is one of three on <em>You Tube<\/em> showing Geller in 1972 rehearsing for a concert with the Bill Evans Trio in Germany. In it, he plays piccolo and flute. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O9fDIm1-dSs&amp;NR=1\" target=\"_blank\">second video<\/a>, he plays alto sax and flute and continues in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O9fDIm1-dSs\" target=\"_blank\">this conclusion<\/a> of the rehearsal sequence. Together, the three clips give us twenty-five minutes of four of the leading jazz players of their time preparing their music. These videos provide a precious opportunity to see Evans at once serious and relaxed in collaboration with a peer for whom he obviously had great respect. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Happy Birthday, Herb. Long may you wave. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herb Geller is eighty years old today. The alto saxophonist was the performing guest of honor tonight in a tribute concert by the NDR (North German Radio) Big Band. From 1965 to 1993, Geller was a star soloist of the NDR, one of the best large jazz aggregations in the world. The concert was in [&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-1513","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\/1513","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=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}