{"id":3226,"date":"2011-12-28T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T00:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2011-12-28T17:12:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:12:31","slug":"a-birthday-to-crow-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/12\/a-birthday-to-crow-about\/","title":{"rendered":"A Birthday To Crow About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Bill-Crow-red-shirt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Bill-Crow-red-shirt.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bill Crow, red shirt\" width=\"140\" height=\"153\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3227\" \/><\/a>The <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff unaccountably overlooked a memo designed to alert us yesterday to an important birthday. Bill Crow, bassist, tubist, author and occasional correspondent to this blog, became 84 years old on December 27. He continues to gig on both of his instruments and to write, among other things, his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.local802afm.org\/\"target=\"_blank\">Band Room column<\/a> in <em>Allegro<\/em>, the newspaper of New York musicians union local 802. Now that he is 84 and one day, we wish Bill all the best now, in 2012 and for a long time thereafter. <\/p>\n<p>Here is Mr. Crow in the Gerry Mulligan quartet with Art Farmer and Dave Bailey at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s from Bert Stern\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s film <em>Jazz on a Summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day<\/em>. The piece is Mulligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As Catch Can,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recorded the same year in the album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002HMHQXS\/?ie=UTF8&#038;pf_rd_t=201&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_p=486539851&#038;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&#038;camp=1789&#038;pf_rd_r=17SK5JARW35WW2R8R076&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">What Is There To Say<\/a>? <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlgKLwhoVgI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Asked in an exchange this morning on the Jazz West Coast listserve why all of those beautiful girls were flipping over the bass player, Mr. Crow replied, &#8220;Because he was so young and handsome.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Was?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rifftides staff unaccountably overlooked a memo designed to alert us yesterday to an important birthday. Bill Crow, bassist, tubist, author and occasional correspondent to this blog, became 84 years old on December 27. He continues to gig on both of his instruments and to write, among other things, his Band Room column in Allegro, [&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-3226","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\/3226","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=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}