{"id":508,"date":"2006-05-31T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=508"},"modified":"2006-05-31T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T08:06:00","slug":"the_road_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/05\/the_road_2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later in the week, I&#8217;ll be posting from Rochester, New York, and the ninth annual Swing &#8216;n Jazz, an event supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcp-music.org\/\"target=\"_blank\">The Commission Project&#8217;s<\/a> music education of young people. In this context, &#8220;Swing&#8221; refers to both music and golf. A tournament on Sunday raises money for the education. Workshops accomplish the learning during a three-day event, and throughout the year by way of commissioned works that provide educational opportunities for children of all ages. Trumpeter Marvin Stamm is the musical director of this year&#8217;s Swing &#8216;n Jazz. His faculty comes from  the Eastman School, other educational institutions and the New York City jazz scene. Reversing the old axiom, this is a case in which those who can, do, <em>and<\/em> teach.<br \/>\nLast year&#8217;s faculty stayed over for two days and recorded a CD, <a href=\"http:\/\/sonsofsound.com\/recordings\/sspcd029\/index.html\"target=\"_blank\"><em>The Swing &#8216;n Jazz All-Stars<\/em><\/a>, under the direction of the trombonist Fred Wesley. It was just released. I can&#8217;t offer a full-fledged review, but I liked what I heard the first time through. Stamm is impressive throughout, and there&#8217;s a nifty bass duet by Jay Leonhart and Keter Betts. Sadly, Betts died not long after the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later in the week, I&#8217;ll be posting from Rochester, New York, and the ninth annual Swing &#8216;n Jazz, an event supporting The Commission Project&#8217;s music education of young people. In this context, &#8220;Swing&#8221; refers to both music and golf. A tournament on Sunday raises money for the education. Workshops accomplish the learning during a three-day [&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-508","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\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}