{"id":4272,"date":"2012-12-04T21:49:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2012-12-04T21:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:49:56","slug":"jim-wilkes-northwest-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/12\/jim-wilkes-northwest-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Wilke&#8217;s Northwest Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lanphere-original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lanphere-original.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lanphere original\" width=\"130\" height=\"137\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4273\" \/><\/a>If you are yearning for Christmas music, it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hard to find. Walk into a supermarket, park at a service station pump or step into an elevator. Whether the stuff piped into commercial establishments suits your taste is beside the point; they give you no choice. This weekend, Jim Wilke won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give you a choice, either, but considering the proclivities of <em>Rifftides<\/em> readers, his selections are more likely to meet your criteria than those of the lowest-common-denominator marketers who program satellites and dentists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 offices. Here is Mr. Wilke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s illustrated announcement about his next <em>Jazz Northwest<\/em>. You may wish to mark your calendar.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>SOME OF OUR FAVORITE THINGS ON JAZZ NORTHWEST, DECEMBER 9, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jim Wilke shares some of his favorite CDs for the holidays by Northwest jazz musicians who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve appeared often on the program&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Lanphere\"target=\"_blank\">Don Lanphere<\/a>, The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, Ernestine Anderson, Dave Peck, Greta Matassa, Barney McClure and others. Listen to this December celebration featuring some our favorite musicians playing holiday music and support <em>Jazz Northwest<\/em>, Sunday afternoons at 2 Pacific Time on 88.5, KPLU and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kplu.org\"target=\"_blank\">kplu.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lanphere-Christmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lanphere-Christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lanphere Christmas\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lanphere-Christmas.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lanphere-Christmas-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><p>The cover on the original issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Year-Round-Christmas-Don-Lanphere\/dp\/B000254MAM\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;keywords=DON%20LANPHERE%20Year%20%27Round%20Christmas&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1354683307&#038;s=music&#038;sr=1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">Lanphere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1989 Christmas album<\/a> showed him playing his horn (above left). The new one suits the season. The album is one of the late saxophonist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are yearning for Christmas music, it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hard to find. Walk into a supermarket, park at a service station pump or step into an elevator. Whether the stuff piped into commercial establishments suits your taste is beside the point; they give you no choice. This weekend, Jim Wilke won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give you a choice, [&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-4272","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\/4272","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=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}