{"id":4237,"date":"2012-11-15T22:28:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T06:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2012-11-15T22:28:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T06:28:16","slug":"when-june-met-bird-and-diz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/11\/when-june-met-bird-and-diz\/","title":{"rendered":"When June Met Bird And Diz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the 1950s, touring jazz package concerts filled huge auditoriums. This picture from <em>Jet Magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> September 4, 1952, issue shows three stars of a Stan Kenton package that combined Kenton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s band and an array of guest artists.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Diz-June-C.-Bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Diz-June-C.-Bird.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Diz, June C., Bird\" width=\"422\" height=\"446\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Diz-June-C.-Bird.jpg 422w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Diz-June-C.-Bird-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a> If Gillespie, Christy and Parker recorded together on that tour or at any other time, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be glad to know about it. Until such a recording surfaces, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to settle for Gillespie and Parker with Thelonious Monk, Curly Russell and Buddy Rich playing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bloomdido.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1MCGweQ8Oso?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>That is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bird-Diz-Charlie-Parker\/dp\/B0000047D3\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Bird and Diz<\/em><\/a> album recorded in June, 1950. It has been reissued many times. No wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/brewlitesjazztales.wordpress.com\/author\/therealbrew4you\/\"target=\"_blank\">blogger<\/a> and frequent <em>Rifftides<\/em> commenter Bruno Leicht for alerting us to the photo from <em>Jet<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the 1950s, touring jazz package concerts filled huge auditoriums. This picture from Jet Magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s September 4, 1952, issue shows three stars of a Stan Kenton package that combined Kenton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s band and an array of guest artists. If Gillespie, Christy and Parker recorded together on that tour or at any other time, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be glad [&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-4237","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\/4237","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=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}