{"id":3781,"date":"2012-06-30T17:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2012-06-30T17:41:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:41:57","slug":"other-places-a-tom-talbert-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/06\/other-places-a-tom-talbert-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: A Tom Talbert Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cerra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Jazz Profiles<\/em> remembers Tom Talbert, the under-recognized composer and bandleader who died nearly eight years ago in his early eighties. Steve incorporates a passage in which Talbert wrote about his postwar debut.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Worked with several bands and met arranger-bandleader Johnny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Tom-Talbert-Smiling1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Tom-Talbert-Smiling1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tom Talbert Smiling\" width=\"100\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3783\" \/><\/a>Richards in Boston. Moved to Los Angeles the winter of 1946 and was soon living at the Harvey Hotel&#8230;a musician&#8217;s hangout fondly referred to as the Hot Harvey.<\/p>\n<p>Before long Richards appeared and, in his generous manner, started looking for things I could do. He soon encouraged me to start a band and that seemed a logical move for an out-of-work twenty-one year old arranger. We started with a group of guys who wanted to play and as we rehearsed some were changed and others just left for a real job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of those guys who wanted to play were Dodo Marmarosa, Art Pepper, Lucky Thompson and Warne Marsh. Not bad for a young bandleader just out of the Army. <\/p>\n<p>Cerra dresses up the piece with his customary resourceful graphics and an imaginative recording from later in Talbert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career. <a href=\"http:\/\/jazzprofiles.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/tom-talbert-different-voice.html\"target=_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see and hear it. <\/p>\n<p>For a <em>Rifftides<\/em> post on Talbert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career shortly after he passed on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/07\/tom_talbert_19242005.html\"target=_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AND<\/strong><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Vancouver Sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> Marke Andrews caught up with Wayne Shorter, whom the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has commissioned to compose a new piece.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When you write for us, make it hard,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Shorter said they told him. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Show us no mercy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/entertainment\/Wayne+Shorter\/6838432\/story.html\"target=\"_blank\">Go here<\/a> to read Andrews\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cerra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jazz Profiles remembers Tom Talbert, the under-recognized composer and bandleader who died nearly eight years ago in his early eighties. Steve incorporates a passage in which Talbert wrote about his postwar debut. Worked with several bands and met arranger-bandleader Johnny Richards in Boston. Moved to Los Angeles the winter of 1946 and was [&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-3781","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\/3781","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=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}