{"id":4348,"date":"2013-03-17T00:09:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T07:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2013-03-17T00:19:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T07:19:35","slug":"book-paul-de-barros-on-marian-mcpartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/03\/book-paul-de-barros-on-marian-mcpartland\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Paul de Barros on Marian McPartland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul de Barros, <em><a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shall-Play-That-One-Together\/dp\/0312558031\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland<\/a><\/a><\/em> (St. Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Press)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4349\" alt=\"deBarros McP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/deBarros-McP.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"181\" \/>The nonagenarian pianist presented de Barros with every biographer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope, unrestricted access to his subject\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal papers and nearly unrestricted access to her private thoughts. He made the most of it, turning exhaustive research and hundreds of hours of interviews into a true story with the sweep of a novel. From the early discovery of McPartland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical gift through her wartime service, her ecstatic and stormy marriage to Jimmy McPartland, her growth as a pianist, her deep affair with Joe Morello, and the radio show that made her a national figure, she has had a fascinating life. It makes a splendid read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul de Barros, Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland (St. Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Press) The nonagenarian pianist presented de Barros with every biographer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope, unrestricted access to his subject\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal papers and nearly unrestricted access to her private thoughts. He made the most of it, turning exhaustive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4349,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","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=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}