{"id":4037,"date":"2012-09-13T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2012-09-13T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:36:12","slug":"as-desmond-might-not-have-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/09\/as-desmond-might-not-have-said\/","title":{"rendered":"As Desmond Might Not Have Said&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Desmond had political convictions. He occasionally indicated but<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Des-head-90X68.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Des-head-90X68.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Des head 90X68\" width=\"90\" height=\"68\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4038\" \/><\/a> rarely went on at length about them. Iola Brubeck knows that and called our attention to an opinion piece by Chan Lowe, and his accompanying editorial cartoon, in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Florida <em>Sun Sentinel<\/em>.  Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the note wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t needed, he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play it. He played silence. I say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153played,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because his silences could be as eloquent and pregnant with meaning as his bare-bones riffs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To see how that relates to the <em>Sun Sentinel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> take on one of the day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s major news stories, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/opinion\/chan-lowe\/sfl-libya-crisis-20120912,0,586493.story\"target=\"_blank\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Desmond had political convictions. He occasionally indicated but rarely went on at length about them. Iola Brubeck knows that and called our attention to an opinion piece by Chan Lowe, and his accompanying editorial cartoon, in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Florida Sun Sentinel. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one line: If the note wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t needed, he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play it. He played [&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-4037","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\/4037","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=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}