{"id":2056,"date":"2010-05-15T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2010-05-15T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:05:00","slug":"other_places_paich_and_pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/05\/other_places_paich_and_pierce\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Paich And Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devotees of medium-sized bands, some of which are discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/03\/medium_but_well_done.html\"target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/04\/medium_bul_well_done_part_2.html\"target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>* in the <em>Rifftides<\/em> archives, will enjoy Ed Leimbacher&#8217;s new posting on his <em>I Witness<\/em> blog. His piece begins with a series of puns so bad that they&#8217;re bad, but goes on to provide entertaining and useful information about groups led by Marty Paich and Nat Pierce.  A brief sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I fully expected to find the Paich album superficial and the Pierce one to be more substantial&#8230; which should teach me to eschew preconceptions. Because Paich&#8217;s pieces slink and soar, all but one tune his own originals, while Pierce&#8217;s program mixes reworkings and his own tunes about equally (and more stolidly).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of Leimbacher&#8217;s illustrated essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrebks.blogspot.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<small><strong>*Revisiting this, I see that I promised a third installment. That was two years ago. I&#8217;ll put it back on the to-do list.<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devotees of medium-sized bands, some of which are discussed here and here* in the Rifftides archives, will enjoy Ed Leimbacher&#8217;s new posting on his I Witness blog. His piece begins with a series of puns so bad that they&#8217;re bad, but goes on to provide entertaining and useful information about groups led by Marty Paich [&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-2056","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\/2056","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=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}