{"id":3002,"date":"2011-10-11T00:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T07:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2011-10-11T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T05:00:44","slug":"for-fun-weiss-most-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/10\/for-fun-weiss-most-co\/","title":{"rendered":"For Fun: Weiss, Most &#038; Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Weiss-Most.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Weiss-Most.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Weiss &amp; Most\" width=\"180\" height=\"93\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3003\" \/><\/a>Mort Weiss identified himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/05\/a_visit_to_the_black_hawk.html\"target=\"_blank\">in a comment here<\/a> as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greatest out-of-work Jewish bebop clarinet player.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That may be, but he found work one night not long ago at Steamers jazz club in the Los Angeles area. Weiss led a band with Sam Most, tenor sax and flute; Ron Eschete, guitar; Luther Hughes, bass; and Roy McCurdy, drums. The tune is Jerome Kern\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Old Fashioned\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at a lovely, relaxed tempo. Most\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two tenor choruses channeling Lester Young are as enjoyable as watching him dig Eschete.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qTyd2gl5sJI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mort Weiss identified himself in a comment here as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greatest out-of-work Jewish bebop clarinet player.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That may be, but he found work one night not long ago at Steamers jazz club in the Los Angeles area. Weiss led a band with Sam Most, tenor sax and flute; Ron Eschete, guitar; Luther Hughes, bass; [&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-3002","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\/3002","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=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}