{"id":4072,"date":"2012-09-26T23:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T06:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2012-09-26T23:34:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T06:34:44","slug":"dizzy-gillespie-and-brother-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/09\/dizzy-gillespie-and-brother-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Dizzy Gillespie And &#8220;Brother K&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dizzy-head-shot-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dizzy-head-shot-.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dizzy head shot\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dizzy-head-shot-.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dizzy-head-shot--70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dizzy-head-shot--110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>Everything else in life has not quite come to a standstill while I race the deadline for the Dizzy Gillespie project mentioned in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sweet Lorraine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d post of September 20. It only seems that way. <\/p>\n<p>Researching Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brother K,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d his tribute to Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, I encountered a 1985 video known to few, if the low number of <em>YouTube<\/em> hits is reliable evidence. Robert Farnon conducts Dizzy and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra not in one of Farnon&#8217;s own celebrated arrangements, but in a setting for the piece by the under-recognized Mike Crotty. The volume could be higher; you may want to crank up your speakers.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b2QGVnjCRZU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>More to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything else in life has not quite come to a standstill while I race the deadline for the Dizzy Gillespie project mentioned in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sweet Lorraine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d post of September 20. It only seems that way. Researching Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brother K,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d his tribute to Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, I encountered a 1985 video known to [&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-4072","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\/4072","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=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}