{"id":2210,"date":"2010-10-21T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2010-10-21T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:40:00","slug":"john_birks_gillespies_89th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/10\/john_birks_gillespies_89th\/","title":{"rendered":"John Birks Gillespie&#8217;s 93rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Note: If this item looks familiar, it is because I mistakenly posted it on October 17. Today, October 21, is the correct date of Dizzy&#8217;s birth, so the <i>Rifftides<\/i> staff is moving the piece to where it belongs and adding a couple of links&#151;DR.<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is the birthday of Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993). In observance, here is a remarkable confluence of the talents of Gillespie and the master composer and arranger Robert Farnon (1917-2005). The piece is Gillespie&#8217;s &#8220;Con Alma,&#8221; orchestrated by Farnon and conducted by him at London&#8217;s Royal Festival Hall in 1985. The delay between video and audio is mildly disconcerting, but the music is glorious.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RQ2T7TjTMGI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RQ2T7TjTMGI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>For insight into how Dizzy&#8217;s thoughtfulness and generosity affected one of many musicians, see today&#8217;s entry in <a href=\"http:\/\/d-mo-zone.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/thank-you-dizzy.html\"target=\"_blank\">Diane Moser&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor a personal remembrance, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/01\/our_friend_dizzy.html\"target=\"_blank\">this <em>Rifftides<\/em> archive piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: If this item looks familiar, it is because I mistakenly posted it on October 17. Today, October 21, is the correct date of Dizzy&#8217;s birth, so the Rifftides staff is moving the piece to where it belongs and adding a couple of links&#151;DR. This is the birthday of Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993). In observance, here [&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-2210","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\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}