{"id":2355,"date":"2011-03-02T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2011-03-07T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:40:48","slug":"webb-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/03\/webb-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still tucking in the frayed ends of daily life after extended duty in the trenches of extracurricular writing. Soon, there will be a new batch of <strong>Doug&#8217;s Picks <\/strong>as the blogging routine returns to normal, whatever that is.<\/p>\n<p>I am told that the first rule of survival in the weblog game is to keep the blog fresh. So\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto give you useful information and avoid turning this into a mere video disc jockey operation\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhere is a cross-generational performance of Bud Powell&#8217;s &#8220;Webb City.&#8221; The older generation is represented by Phil Woods, the man in the hat, the younger by Grace Kelly, the woman in the magenta dress, and her band: Jason Palmer, trumpet; Doug Johnson, piano; Evan Gregor, bass; and Jordan Perison, drums.   &#8220;Webb City&#8221; became famous in bebop circles because of a brilliant 1946 recording by Fats Navarro. Powell named the tune not after the southwest Missouri town of 10,000 but for Freddie Webster, one of the heros of pre-bop trumpet. Thanks to Ira Gitler, the fount of all bebop knowledge, for that nugget. There\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwasn&#8217;t that useful?<\/p>\n<p>This performance took place recently at Sculler&#8217;s, a jazz emporium in Boston, Massachusetts, a large city on the east coast of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 355px; width: 440px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JoC4cPgkW9o?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JoC4cPgkW9o?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Webb City&#8221; is not on Ms. Kelly&#8217;s new CD, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMan-With-the-Hat%2Fdp%2FB004K6J0K6%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1299102832%26sr%3D1-1-catcorr&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Man With the Hat<\/a><\/em>, but Mr. Woods is. Here&#8217;s a sign of changing times in the record business and in earning prospects for musicians: the album sells on Amazon as a digital download for $6.93, as a CD for $24.72 plus shipping. There are still lots of diehard CD lovers, but remaining one is not getting easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still tucking in the frayed ends of daily life after extended duty in the trenches of extracurricular writing. Soon, there will be a new batch of Doug&#8217;s Picks as the blogging routine returns to normal, whatever that is. I am told that the first rule of survival in the weblog game is to keep [&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-2355","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\/2355","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=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}