{"id":171,"date":"2005-09-16T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=171"},"modified":"2005-09-16T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T08:05:00","slug":"monterey_brubeck_desmond_strav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/09\/monterey_brubeck_desmond_strav\/","title":{"rendered":"Monterey, Brubeck, Desmond, Stravinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am off to California and a book signing at the Monterey Jazz Festival Saturday afternoon from 3 to 6 pm at the Tower Records booth. See you there, I hope. What book? Glad you asked. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parksidepublications.com\/\">Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond<\/a>, still available after all these months. Desmond and Dave Brubeck were frequent performers with Brubeck&#8217;s quartet at Monterey. Dave is not there this year, but I&#8217;m looking forward to hearing Sonny Rollins and John Handy, among others. if there is a spare moment now and then, I&#8217;ll be posting brief reports.<br \/>\nIn <em>Take Five<\/em>, I go on a bit about Paul&#8217;s love affair with the works of Igor Stravinsky. He was particularly smitten with <em>Petrouchka <\/em>and <em>The Rite of Spring<\/em> and often quoted them in ingenious ways.  I am grateful to <em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Garret Gannuch for pointing me toward a web site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonssons.org\/archives\/2005_06.html\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Casa Jonsson <\/em><\/a>and a page that discusses the Brubeck-Desmond-Stravinsky axis. It provides audio samples of Stravinsky&#8217;s works and of the ways Desmond and Brubeck used them in their improvisations in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/B000000Y2W\/qid=1126766191\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1?v=glance%26s=music%26n=507846\"target=\"_blank\">Jazz At Oberlin<\/a><\/em>. It&#8217;s educational; good, clean fun for the whole family.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be in touch, you&#8217;ll find an e-mail address in the right-hand column. See you next week, if not sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am off to California and a book signing at the Monterey Jazz Festival Saturday afternoon from 3 to 6 pm at the Tower Records booth. See you there, I hope. What book? Glad you asked. It&#8217;s Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, still available after all these months. Desmond and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-171","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\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}