{"id":4947,"date":"2013-07-21T14:49:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T21:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2013-07-21T14:49:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T21:49:57","slug":"lionel-ferbos-in-his-second-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/07\/lionel-ferbos-in-his-second-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Ferbos In His Second Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 17 Lionel Ferbos broke his own record as the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest working jazz musician. The New Orleans trumpeter is now 102. Ferbos celebrated by playing a gig at the Palm Court, where he has performed for a substantial number of his ten decades. This shot of Ferbos recently won Skip Bolen the Jazz Journalists Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photo of the year award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SkipBolen_LionelFerbos_H0H2294_120dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SkipBolen_LionelFerbos_H0H2294_120dpi.jpg\" alt=\"SkipBolen_LionelFerbos_H0H2294_120dpi\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SkipBolen_LionelFerbos_H0H2294_120dpi.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SkipBolen_LionelFerbos_H0H2294_120dpi-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><p>Associated Press writer Stacy Plaisance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday article about Ferbos (pronounced <strong>Fair-boh<\/strong>) quotes him on his longevity. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t that something?&#8221; he said. &#8220;But you know I never dreamed of that. I figured if I could go to about 50 I&#8217;d be doing good.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of Plaisance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/2013\/07\/19\/4809207\/new-orleans-trumpeter-lionel-ferbos.html\"targt=\"_blank\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. For a <em>Rifftides<\/em> post about Ferbos when he was a mere 99, with a video that ends with his good advice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/07\/lionel_ferbos.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 17 Lionel Ferbos broke his own record as the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest working jazz musician. The New Orleans trumpeter is now 102. Ferbos celebrated by playing a gig at the Palm Court, where he has performed for a substantial number of his ten decades. This shot of Ferbos recently won Skip Bolen the Jazz [&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-4947","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\/4947","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=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}