{"id":1690,"date":"2009-04-20T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2009-04-20T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T08:05:00","slug":"gillespie_and_the_traditionali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/04\/gillespie_and_the_traditionali\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Gillespie And The Traditionalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current subject in Steve Cerra&#8217;s <em>Jazz Profiles<\/em> blog is Jack Tracy, a former editor of <em>Down Beat<\/em> magazine and producer of important records during a&nbsp;yeasty period of Chicago&#8217;s jazz history. His&nbsp;anecdotes about&nbsp;encounters with musicians include&nbsp;disclosure of&nbsp;an aspect of Dizzy Gillespie&#8217;s personality that is rarely emphasized. To read it, <a href=\"http:\/\/jazzprofiles.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a> and scroll down to &#8220;Jimmy Yancey Memorial.&#8221; The piece includes a rare photograph reinforcing&nbsp;an essential&nbsp;point in&nbsp;Tracy&#8217;s story &#8212; that before he helped evolve bebop, Gillespie developed in an older tradition and never lost his respect for it. <\/p>\n<p>To read a <em>Rifftides <\/em>post with other remembrance of Dizzy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/01\/our_friend_dizzy.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current subject in Steve Cerra&#8217;s Jazz Profiles blog is Jack Tracy, a former editor of Down Beat magazine and producer of important records during a&nbsp;yeasty period of Chicago&#8217;s jazz history. His&nbsp;anecdotes about&nbsp;encounters with musicians include&nbsp;disclosure of&nbsp;an aspect of Dizzy Gillespie&#8217;s personality that is rarely emphasized. To read it, go here and scroll down to [&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-1690","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\/1690","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=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}