{"id":3349,"date":"2012-02-12T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2012-02-12T23:45:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T07:45:28","slug":"weekend-extra-2-play-like-tom-harrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/02\/weekend-extra-2-play-like-tom-harrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra #2: Play Like Tom Harrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psst, hey Bud, c&#8217;mere a minute. Wanna play like Tom Harrell? (<em>that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tom-Harrell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tom-Harrell.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tom Harrell\" width=\"110\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3350\" \/><\/a> my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheldon_Leonard\"target=\"_blank\">Sheldon Leonard<\/a> impression<\/em>). All you gotta do is practice, then you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to play the blues in all 12 keys without missing a beat. (It helps to have a pianist who can play the blues in all 12 keys.) <\/p>\n<p>Then you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll sound like this:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UXvHQUP0zcY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>\nWell, maybe not exactly like that. <\/p>\n<p>\nHarrell was assisted by Jamie Aebersold, who in his mercantile life runs a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzbooks.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">play-along empire<\/a>. Thanks to Angela Harrell for letting us know about that clip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psst, hey Bud, c&#8217;mere a minute. Wanna play like Tom Harrell? (that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my Sheldon Leonard impression). All you gotta do is practice, then you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to play the blues in all 12 keys without missing a beat. (It helps to have a pianist who can play the blues in all 12 keys.) Then you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll [&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-3349","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\/3349","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=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}