{"id":1788,"date":"2009-08-06T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2009-08-06T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T04:31:00","slug":"other_places_zeitlin_at_length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/08\/other_places_zeitlin_at_length\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Zeitlin At Length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Myers&#8217; <em>JazzWax <\/em> wraps up a four-part interview with  Denny Zeitlin, packed with good questions, and answers that give insights into an intriguing man. For decades, Zeitlin has maintained parallel careers as a jazz pianist and a practicing psychiatrist. Myers asked him how empathy plays a role in both pursuits.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I&#8217;m doing my most effective work as a musician playing with other musicians, I try to lose that positional sense of self so I can enter their musical world <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Zeitlin%20head.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zeitlin head.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/Zeitlin head-thumb-54x51-9058.jpg\" width=\"54\" height=\"51\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>and merge with what they&#8217;re doing. With a patient in my office, I do my most effective work when I&#8217;m able to enter their psychological life so deeply that I can really seem to feel what it is that he or she is feeling. Yet in both cases, there&#8217;s a part of me that is still available, that is able to pull back and observe the process that both of us are in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of the interview, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com.\/\"target=\"_blank\"><em>JazzWax.com<\/em><\/a>. For a piece I wrote about Zeitlin in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123673188811589941.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Myers&#8217; JazzWax wraps up a four-part interview with Denny Zeitlin, packed with good questions, and answers that give insights into an intriguing man. For decades, Zeitlin has maintained parallel careers as a jazz pianist and a practicing psychiatrist. Myers asked him how empathy plays a role in both pursuits. When I&#8217;m doing my most [&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-1788","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\/1788","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=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}