{"id":2046,"date":"2010-05-02T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2010-05-02T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T08:04:00","slug":"sonnenberg_sings_lees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/05\/sonnenberg_sings_lees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnenberg Sings Lees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Paul Sonnenberg has posted a medley of songs with Gene Lees&#8217; lyrics. If you <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/sonnenberg\/Site\/Welcome.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>, you&#8217;ll learn as much about Mr. Sonnenberg as I know. If you watch the video below, you&#8217;ll see and hear him sing the songs, largely in tune, with a feel for the Brazilian samba idiom and with, for the most part, the correct English lyrics. In &#8220;Quiet Night of Quiet Stars,&#8221; it should be, &#8220;&#8230;how lovely,&#8221; not &#8220;&#8230;so lovely,&#8221; but that&#8217;s quibbling. Here&#8217;s Paul Sonnenberg doing nice work.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/x0w7sfKGio4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/x0w7sfKGio4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p><em>Rifftides<\/em> is going to move on from Gene Lees, at least for the moment, and on to other matters. My plan for next time is to catch up with a few recent CDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Paul Sonnenberg has posted a medley of songs with Gene Lees&#8217; lyrics. If you go here, you&#8217;ll learn as much about Mr. Sonnenberg as I know. If you watch the video below, you&#8217;ll see and hear him sing the songs, largely in tune, with a feel for the Brazilian samba idiom and [&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-2046","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\/2046","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=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}