{"id":3424,"date":"2012-03-05T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2012-03-05T19:37:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T03:37:19","slug":"correspondence-another-warhol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/03\/correspondence-another-warhol\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence: Another Warhol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Ted O&#8217;Reilly writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wasn&#8217;t there a Warhol cover for a Johnny Griffin Blue Note?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A brief search discloses that, as we might expect of one of Canada&#8217;s leading jazz broadcasters, Mr. O&#8217;Reilly is correct. The album was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Congregation-Johnny-Griffin\/dp\/B000GPI17I\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">The Congregation<\/a>, recorded by the tenor saxophonist in 1957 with Sonny Clark, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; and the excellent, under-recognized Kenny Dennis on drums. Here is Warhol&#8217;s cover, and the title tune mining a vein that in the second half of the 1950s yielded several 16-bar pieces oriented&#151;a la Horace Silver&#8217;s &#8220;The Preacher&#8221;&#151;toward gospel and soul music.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_XuU2kBf2g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>\nThe <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff did not chop off the upper two-thirds of the saxophonist&#8217;s head in the illustration. That&#8217;s how Warhol drew it. <\/p>\n<p><p>He did stranger things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides reader Ted O&#8217;Reilly writes: Wasn&#8217;t there a Warhol cover for a Johnny Griffin Blue Note? A brief search discloses that, as we might expect of one of Canada&#8217;s leading jazz broadcasters, Mr. O&#8217;Reilly is correct. The album was The Congregation, recorded by the tenor saxophonist in 1957 with Sonny Clark, piano; Paul Chambers, 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-3424","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\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}