{"id":2579,"date":"2011-04-30T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2011-04-30T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T00:54:09","slug":"weekend-extra-billie-travelin-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/04\/weekend-extra-billie-travelin-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Billie Travelin&#8217; Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/a>Trummy Young and Johnny Mercer wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Travelin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Light.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Billie Holiday owned it. This version with an unidentified pianist was made in Paris in 1959, the year she died. It is one of her most affecting treatments of a song that became one of her signature pieces.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-dX0pdsLVb0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>For more about Billie and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Travelin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Light,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d including her original recording of the song and an unusual version by Chet Baker, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/brewlitesjazztales.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/30\/travlin-light-with-lady-day-chet-baker\/\"target=\"_blank\">Bruno Leicht\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new blog entry<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trummy Young and Johnny Mercer wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Travelin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Light.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Billie Holiday owned it. This version with an unidentified pianist was made in Paris in 1959, the year she died. It is one of her most affecting treatments of a song that became one of her signature pieces. For more about Billie and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Travelin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Light,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d including her [&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-2579","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\/2579","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=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}