{"id":417,"date":"2006-03-10T23:03:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=417"},"modified":"2006-03-10T23:03:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T07:03:28","slug":"the_return_of_oska_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/03\/the_return_of_oska_t\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Oska T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for radio listeners in Cincinnati, Ohio, or anywhere on the internet: The veteran broadcaster Oscar Treadwell (legendary would not be a hyperbolic term in this case) is back on the air. In his early career, Treadwell was so highly regarded by musicians that Wardell Gray named one of his compositions &#8220;Treadin&#8217; With Treadwell,&#8221; Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie recorded &#8220;An Oscar for Treadwell&#8221; and Thelonious Monk wrote &#8220;Oska T.&#8221;<br \/>\nTreadwell retired in 2001, but a survey of listeners disclosed that they wanted him back and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvxu.org\/listen\/streams.asp\"target=\"_blank\">WXVU-FM (91.7)<\/a> gave him a two-hour slot at 9 pm Eastern Time on Sundays. The station streams its programming live and has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvxu.org\/schedule\/jazz.asp\"target=\"_blank\">archive<\/a> of Treadwell&#8217;s programs. I have sampled several of them and find him as hip as ever, expert in all eras of jazz; tasteful, to the point and knowledgeable in his comments.<br \/>\nThe <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff thanks reader Dave Barber for calling this to our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for radio listeners in Cincinnati, Ohio, or anywhere on the internet: The veteran broadcaster Oscar Treadwell (legendary would not be a hyperbolic term in this case) is back on the air. In his early career, Treadwell was so highly regarded by musicians that Wardell Gray named one of his compositions &#8220;Treadin&#8217; With Treadwell,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}