{"id":2474,"date":"2011-03-29T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T18:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2011-03-29T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T18:43:49","slug":"a-striking-golden-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/03\/a-striking-golden-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"A Striking &#8220;Golden Striker&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Rifftides<\/i> readers who responded enthusiastically to the video we posted on February 22 in connection with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/02\/closeted_with_the_mjq\/\"target=\"_blank\"> a piece about the Modern Jazz Quartet<\/a> may be absolutely delirious when they see&#151;and hear&#151;this one. Again, the music is John Lewis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Golden Striker.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The video is from the same 1982 MJQ tour that produced the version recorded in Holland. This time, they were at the Alexandra Palace in London. Now, there is more than the mere suggestion of a smile from Milt Jackson. Everybody is smiling. This is a remarkable performance by all hands, but Percy Health\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solo won the audience.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i10qbIWIRqk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Golden Striker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is from John Lewis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s score for the film <i>No Sun in Venice<\/i>. His inspiration was these figures on the clock tower In the Piazza San Marco.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Golden-Strikers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Golden-Strikers.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Golden Strikers\" width=\"301\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Golden-Strikers.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Golden-Strikers-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides readers who responded enthusiastically to the video we posted on February 22 in connection with a piece about the Modern Jazz Quartet may be absolutely delirious when they see&#151;and hear&#151;this one. Again, the music is John Lewis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Golden Striker.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The video is from the same 1982 MJQ tour that produced the version recorded [&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-2474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","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=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}