{"id":3306,"date":"2012-01-30T00:52:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2012-01-30T00:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T08:01:27","slug":"paul-blair-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/01\/paul-blair-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Blair Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/paul-blair1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/paul-blair1-150x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"paul-blair1\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3307\" \/><\/a>A memorial service for broadcaster, editor and jazz historian Paul Blair will be held this evening, January 30 at St Peter&#8217;s Church in Manhattan. Thanks to Jim Eigo, here is full information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family and friends from elementary school, college, Peace Corps in Malawi, Voice of America, the New York Jazz community, are remembering Paul with words and songs. <\/p>\n<p>Speakers:<br \/>\nAmandus J. Derr , Senior Pastor of St. Peter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Church<br \/>\nYessy Blair and Nick Blair<br \/>\nEllen Miller from PS 16 and West High of Rochester, NY<br \/>\nBob Abel \/ Charlie Meliska, Wooster College, OH<br \/>\nJohn Geraghty \/ Sandra Lauffer, PCV in Malawi<br \/>\nBarry Maughan, VoA (eulogy read by Nicholas Blair)<br \/>\nHoward Mandel of Jazz Journalists Association (JJA)<\/p>\n<p>Musicians Set 1<br \/>\nBob Dorough<br \/>\nBill Mays<br \/>\nPheeroan akLaff<br \/>\nSteve Berger<br \/>\nPat O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Leary<br \/>\nBob Mover<br \/>\nScott Robinson<\/p>\n<p>Music set 2:<br \/>\nCecilia Coleman Big Band:<br \/>\nPeter Brainin, Bobby Porcelli, Stephan Kammerer, Geoff Vidal, Stan Killian, Frank Basile, Jeff Wilfore, Hardin Butcher, Kerry MacKillop, John Eckert, Don Sickler, Matt McDonald, Mike Fahn, Sam Burtis, Joe Randazzo, Tim Givens, Jeff Brillinger, David Coss, and Cecilia Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>The family of Paul Blair thanks all friends who expressed their condolence and love.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Gwen Calvier and her staff at Hot House Jazz magazine<br \/>\nSt. Peter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Church, 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York, NY 10022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a summary of Paul&#8217;s life, career and contributions to jazz, see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.jazzjournalists.org\/2011\/12\/paul-blair-writer-broadcaster-editor-guide-dies-69\/\"target=\"_blank\">Howard Mandel&#8217;s remembrance<\/a> on the Jazz Journalists Association website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memorial service for broadcaster, editor and jazz historian Paul Blair will be held this evening, January 30 at St Peter&#8217;s Church in Manhattan. Thanks to Jim Eigo, here is full information: Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family and friends from elementary school, college, Peace Corps in Malawi, Voice of America, the New York Jazz community, are remembering Paul [&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-3306","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\/3306","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=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}