{"id":225,"date":"2005-11-01T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=225"},"modified":"2005-11-01T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T09:06:00","slug":"desmond_speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/11\/desmond_speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rifftides <\/em>reader Doug Freeman reports from Los Angeles that he has finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parksidepublications.com\/takefive.html\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps more than any biography I&#8217;ve read, yours leaves me wanting to know this man, to hang with him as you were fortunate enough to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Freeman has a question.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The regret I&#8217;m most left with after finishing your wonderful book, though, is not to be able to hear his speaking voice.  I&#8217;m wondering if any of the on-air interviews you cited are hearable anywhere.  Or any other evidence of his vocal pattern.  We know his musical rhythm so well, and thanks to your book I have a decent sense of his life rhythm, but given his gift for the English language, it sure would be nice to know his speaking rhythm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in luck. On his web site, the San Francisco saxophonist Mel Martin has a Real Audio clip of Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interview with Charlie Parker on disc jockey John McClellan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s program in Boston in 1954. To listen to it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melmartin.com\/html_pages\/interviews.html#anchor287094\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a and click on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Charlie Parker interviewed by Paul Desmond.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\nA transcription of the interview is on page 162 of <em>Take Five<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides reader Doug Freeman reports from Los Angeles that he has finished reading Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond. Perhaps more than any biography I&#8217;ve read, yours leaves me wanting to know this man, to hang with him as you were fortunate enough to do. Mr. Freeman has a question. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-225","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\/225","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=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}