{"id":521,"date":"2006-06-14T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=521"},"modified":"2006-06-14T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T08:05:00","slug":"comment_flute_fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/06\/comment_flute_fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Flute Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fine Canadian flutist Bill McBirnie writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am so glad to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/12\/zeitgeist_1.html\"target=\"_blank\">someone acknowledge <\/a>what is truly a masterpiece&#8230;<em>Flute Fever<\/em>&#8230;with Jeremy Steig (flute) and Denny Zeitlin (piano).  When will this album ever be re-issued on CD?!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That question has been asked frequently over the years (by me, among others). Eventually the A&#038; R people at Sony\/Columbia will get the message. But will the the guys who really matter, the Sony\/Columbia accountants, get it?<br \/>\nWhen I tell you that McBirnie is a fine flutist, trust me. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicianmp3.com\/artist\/EXTREMEFLUTE\/\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>, listen to him on an MP3 of his recording of Nat Adderley&#8217;s &#8220;Teaneck&#8221; and find out for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fine Canadian flutist Bill McBirnie writes: I am so glad to hear someone acknowledge what is truly a masterpiece&#8230;Flute Fever&#8230;with Jeremy Steig (flute) and Denny Zeitlin (piano). When will this album ever be re-issued on CD?! That question has been asked frequently over the years (by me, among others). Eventually the A&#038; R people [&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-521","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\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}