{"id":2026,"date":"2010-04-11T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T01:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2010-04-11T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T01:23:21","slug":"other_matters_spring_on_the_he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/04\/other_matters_spring_on_the_he\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: Spring On The Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling is in full, if often chilly, swing. Fruit trees and wildflowers are blossoming. On today&#8217;s 30-mile expedition through the back country heights, I came across this field in bloom and didn&#8217;t want to keep it to myself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/DSC01160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC01160.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/DSC01160-thumb-400x282-14545.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Hello To The Season,&#8221;( to quote the title of a piece from Gary McFarland&#8217;s <em> Point of Departure<\/em> with Richie Kamuca, Jimmy Raney, Willie Dennis, Steve Swallow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Point%20of%20Departure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Point of Departure.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/Point of Departure-thumb-120x120-14553.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>and Mel Lewis). I thought that this exquisite 1963 album had long since lapsed into unavailability. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbanq.com\/Gary-Mcfarland--Point-Of-Departure-Japan-LTD-CD-UCCI-9186_p_15038.html\"target=\"_blank\">this web site<\/a> claims to have it as a CD. If that is true, run, don&#8217;t walk, to order it while it&#8217;s still around. At any moment, it could disappear again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling is in full, if often chilly, swing. Fruit trees and wildflowers are blossoming. On today&#8217;s 30-mile expedition through the back country heights, I came across this field in bloom and didn&#8217;t want to keep it to myself. &#8220;Hello To The Season,&#8221;( to quote the title of a piece from Gary McFarland&#8217;s Point of Departure [&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-2026","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\/2026","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=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}