{"id":2450,"date":"2011-03-17T22:08:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T05:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2011-03-17T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T05:08:53","slug":"nat-coles-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/03\/nat-coles-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Cole&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit late in the day, but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to ignore Nat Cole\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. If he were still among us, he would be 92. He died in 1965 a month short of his 46th birthday. The world remembers him as one of the great popular singers. Pianists revere him. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ignore his singing here&#151;that would be hard to do&#151;but listen to his playing following the vocal and see if you detect some of what helped form Ahmad Jamal, one of countless pianists inspired by Cole.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ApbGsQAsWOY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit late in the day, but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to ignore Nat Cole\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. If he were still among us, he would be 92. He died in 1965 a month short of his 46th birthday. The world remembers him as one of the great popular singers. Pianists revere him. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ignore his singing [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-about","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","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=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}