{"id":2312,"date":"2011-02-14T10:44:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:44:07","slug":"other_places_bill_holman_laude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/02\/other_places_bill_holman_laude\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Bill Holman Lauded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his <i>Jazz Profiles<\/i> website, Steve Cerra begins a tribute to Bill Holman with this passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Japan, a select few of those who maintain the country&#8217;s artistic traditions or make a unique contribution to them are accorded the respect of the nation by being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Holman%20conducting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Holman conducting.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2011\/02\/Holman conducting-thumb-146x208-19075.jpg\" width=\"146\" height=\"208\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>designated as a Living National Treasure [a considerable amount of <i>schimolies<\/i> also come with the title each year].<br \/>\nWhen it comes to composing and arranging for Jazz big bands, no one is more deserving of such consideration than Willis &#8220;Bill&#8221; Holman.<br \/>\nHowever, because this country does not have such an award, the editorial staff at <i>JazzProfiles<\/i> has decided to step up on behalf of grateful Jazz fans everywhere and to bestow upon Bill the distinction of being a Living International Treasure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <i>Jazz Profiles<\/i> post includes a brilliant piece of perception about Holman by Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Previn and an embarrassingly large selection of prose from notes I&#8217;ve written for Holman albums. To read the tribute and see Steve&#8217;s photo montage accompanying one of Holman&#8217;s recordings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzprofiles.blogspot.com:80\/\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor even more on Holman, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/08\/whats_new_bill_holman_always.html\"target=\"_blank\">this Rifftides archive post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his Jazz Profiles website, Steve Cerra begins a tribute to Bill Holman with this passage: In Japan, a select few of those who maintain the country&#8217;s artistic traditions or make a unique contribution to them are accorded the respect of the nation by being designated as a Living National Treasure [a considerable amount of [&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-2312","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\/2312","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=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}