{"id":3286,"date":"2012-01-23T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T01:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2012-01-23T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T01:45:09","slug":"let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/01\/let-it-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Let It Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been several inquiries about whether we are affected by the winter storms in this part of the world. Yes. My shoveling muscles are affected. Driving can be interesting. But when you wake up to sights like these, who cares if there&#8217;s a foot of snow.<\/p>\n<p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Let-It-Snow-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Let-It-Snow-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Let It Snow # 1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Let-It-Snow-11.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Let-It-Snow-11-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWay off in the distance in the upper right is Mount Adams.<\/p>\n<p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Let-It-Snow-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Let-It-Snow-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Let It Snow # 4\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Let-It-Snow-4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Let-It-Snow-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>\nSuch scenery inevitably leads to thoughts of this:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zv6-yMQw4E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Woody Herman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s First Herd, recorded in December, 1945. The trumpet solo was by Sonny Berman, the trombone by Bill Harris. Neal Hefti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrangement was advanced for the time&#151;his final chords still sound advanced&#151;but there is no doubt that Woody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vocal was what made the record a hit. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to hear the recording in better than 78-rpm quality, Mosaic did a splendid job of remastering it for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaicrecords.com\/prodinfo.asp?number=223-MD-CD\">this box set<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been several inquiries about whether we are affected by the winter storms in this part of the world. Yes. My shoveling muscles are affected. Driving can be interesting. But when you wake up to sights like these, who cares if there&#8217;s a foot of snow. Way off in the distance in the upper [&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-3286","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\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}