{"id":2432,"date":"2011-03-15T22:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T05:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2011-03-15T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T05:13:17","slug":"correspondence-ellington-transcendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/03\/correspondence-ellington-transcendent\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence Illustrated: Ellington Transcendent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brewlitesjazztales.wordpress.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Bruno Leicht<\/a> writes from Germany:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s one of my favorite tunes. It&#8217;s a forgotten one. I know it since I was 17, and I still love it. What tricky writing for the clarinets, huh?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, and what singing by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herb_Jeffries\"target=\"_blank\">Herb Jeffries<\/a>. The other soloist is Harry Carney, baritone saxophone. This was July 9, 1941.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bBe6hvcyR7k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra at their peak. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brown Skin Gal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBlanton-Webster-Band-Duke-Ellington%2Fdp%2FB000003EO4&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">this collection<\/a>. Thanks for the reminder, Bruno. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Leicht writes from Germany: Here&#8217;s one of my favorite tunes. It&#8217;s a forgotten one. I know it since I was 17, and I still love it. What tricky writing for the clarinets, huh? Yes, and what singing by Herb Jeffries. The other soloist is Harry Carney, baritone saxophone. This was July 9, 1941. Duke [&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-2432","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\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}