{"id":2894,"date":"2011-09-01T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2011-09-01T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:11:26","slug":"correspondence-sign-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/09\/correspondence-sign-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence: Sign Of The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Schlesinger writes about one manifestation of a trend that is not confined to New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For many years, the Blue Note club in NYC, except for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Blue-Note-Club.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Blue-Note-Club.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blue Note Club\" width=\"120\" height=\"131\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2895\" \/><\/a>Monday night fill-ins, was pretty much booking people who could call themselves &#8220;jazz artists&#8221; without anybody snickering or throwing things.<\/p>\n<p><p>Until now. On September 20, which is not a Monday, the Blue Note &#8220;jazz&#8221; club will feature&#8230; Kenny G.<\/p>\n<p><p>OK, it&#8217;s a Tuesday, not a weekend.  And one night only.  But still.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Schlesinger is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutjazz.com\/php\/contrib.php?id=157\"target=\"_blank\">contributor to <em>All About Jazz<\/em><\/a>. Her book <em>The Insanity Hoax: Exposing the Myth of the Mad Genius<\/em>, will be published in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Schlesinger writes about one manifestation of a trend that is not confined to New York. For many years, the Blue Note club in NYC, except for Monday night fill-ins, was pretty much booking people who could call themselves &#8220;jazz artists&#8221; without anybody snickering or throwing things. Until now. On September 20, which is not [&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-2894","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\/2894","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=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}