{"id":1989,"date":"2010-03-05T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2010-03-05T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T09:05:00","slug":"cd_helen_merrill-dick_katz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/03\/cd_helen_merrill-dick_katz\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Helen Merrill-Dick Katz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/merrillkatzsessions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"merrillkatzsessions.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/merrillkatzsessions-thumb-120x118-13730.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"118\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaicrecords.com\/prodinfo.asp?number=1019\"target=\"_blank\">The Helen Merrill-Dick Katz Sessions<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Mosaic). The bewitching singer and the late master of piano harmony and touch collaborated in 1965 and 1969 on two classic Milestone LPs. Mosaic&#8217;s reissue of both on one CD is a genuine event. In addition to Merrill&#8217;s incomparable singing and Katz&#8217;s playing, we get Thad Jones, Jim Hall, Hubert Laws, Gary Bartz, Ron Carter, Richard Davis, Pete LaRoca and Elvin Jones. Katz&#8217;s lapidary arrangements are an exquisite bonus. After hearing them for 35 years, I still smile at the surprises in his setting of &#8220;Baltimore Oriole.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Helen Merrill-Dick Katz Sessions (Mosaic). The bewitching singer and the late master of piano harmony and touch collaborated in 1965 and 1969 on two classic Milestone LPs. Mosaic&#8217;s reissue of both on one CD is a genuine event. In addition to Merrill&#8217;s incomparable singing and Katz&#8217;s playing, we get Thad Jones, Jim Hall, Hubert [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","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=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}