{"id":492,"date":"2006-05-31T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=492"},"modified":"2006-05-31T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T08:06:00","slug":"comment_diz_and_bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/05\/comment_diz_and_bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Diz and Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the posting about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2006\/05\/desmond.html\"target=\"_blank\">Paul Desmond playing &#8220;Take Five&#8221;<\/a> in a youtube.com video, <em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Jon Naylor wrote from Seattle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In regards to youtube.com, they have a great piece of history with Charlie Parker\/Dizzy Gillespie being presented a Down Beat music award by Leonard Feather and columnist Earl Wilson. Watch the look on Parker&#8217;s face when Earl Wilson refers to him and Dizzy as &#8216;you boys&#8217; and the painful look on Feather&#8217;s face earlier when Earl tries to use some hipster lingo with the phrase, &#8220;Gimme some skin.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E-BPMVnzFU0&#038;search=dizzy%20gillespie\"target=\"_blank\">A classic<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wilson&#8217;s clueless introduction preceded a performance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q7mjfZ9owzY&#038;search=dizzy%20gillespie\"target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hot House,&#8221;<\/a> with Parker and Gillespie accompanied by pianist Dick Hyman, drummer Charlie Smith and bassist Sandy Block. It is rare film of Diz and Bird together.<br \/>\nFor those interested, see previous <em>Rifftides<\/em> postings on Parker (and others) on video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2006\/03\/charlie_parker_1.html\"target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2006\/03\/comments_update.html\"target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2006\/03\/birdshot_1.html\"target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the posting about Paul Desmond playing &#8220;Take Five&#8221; in a youtube.com video, Rifftides reader Jon Naylor wrote from Seattle: In regards to youtube.com, they have a great piece of history with Charlie Parker\/Dizzy Gillespie being presented a Down Beat music award by Leonard Feather and columnist Earl Wilson. Watch the look on Parker&#8217;s face [&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-492","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\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}