{"id":189,"date":"2005-10-11T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=189"},"modified":"2005-10-11T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:05:00","slug":"final_word_on_mandelfor_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/10\/final_word_on_mandelfor_now\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Word on Mandel\u00e2\u20ac\u201dFor Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that we&#8217;re trying to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/10\/finding_mandel_1.html\"target=\"_blank\">Johnny Mandel <\/a>completists, but <em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Russell Chase wrote to remind me of the 1956 Fantasy LP <em>Elliot Lawrence Plays Tiny Kahn and Johnny Mandel Arrangements<\/em>. Terri Hinte of Fantasy discloses that the music in that album is now included in an OJC CD titled <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\/-\/B000058DZD\/qid=1129007597\/sr=2-2\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2?v=glance%26s=music\"target=\"_blank\">The Elliot Lawrence Big Band Swings Cohn &#038; Kahn<\/a><\/em>. Why Mandel didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it into the title this time around is unclear (one syllable too many?), but five of the arrangements are his, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153TNT,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue Room,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who Fard That Shot?,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Heart Stood Still\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jeepers Creepers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  all Mandel in his big band arranging prime.<br \/>\nAl Cohn and Zoot Sims were in the band, well known and headed toward outright fame. Others members: Urbie Green, Hal McKusick, Nick Travis and Eddie Bert, along with the splendid bass-and-drums team of Buddy Clark and Sol Gubin supporting Lawrence, a more than capable pianist. This may have been the best of Lawrence\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s several excellent bands.  Mandel, Cohn and Kahn had a sterling collection of players to write for. The musicians gave the arrangements spirited readings. Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that we&#8217;re trying to be Johnny Mandel completists, but Rifftides reader Russell Chase wrote to remind me of the 1956 Fantasy LP Elliot Lawrence Plays Tiny Kahn and Johnny Mandel Arrangements. Terri Hinte of Fantasy discloses that the music in that album is now included in an OJC CD titled The Elliot Lawrence Big [&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-189","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\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}