{"id":1571,"date":"2008-12-30T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2008-12-30T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T00:45:00","slug":"meet_ralph_rainger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/12\/meet_ralph_rainger\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ralph Rainger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainger was a very good pianist. In 1933, Paramount featured him playing his music in a&#8221;\u00a0promotional short subject that included cameo appearances by Bing Crosby and Maurice Chevalier. It ends with superimposed shots of Rainger improvising separate parts simultaneously on three pianos. Sound familiar? Of course, but it was three decades before Bill Evans recorded <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FConversations-Myself-Bill-Evans%2Fdp%2FB0000047CV%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1230698813%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Conversations With Myself<\/a><\/em>. I wanted to put the film directly into <em>Rifftides<\/em>, but  embedding the clip is forbidden. To see it,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G464C-jDoU0\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainger was a very good pianist. In 1933, Paramount featured him playing his music in a&#8221;\u00a0promotional short subject that included cameo appearances by Bing Crosby and Maurice Chevalier. It ends with superimposed shots of Rainger improvising separate parts simultaneously on three pianos. Sound familiar? Of course, but it was three decades before Bill Evans recorded [&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-1571","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\/1571","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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}