{"id":5320,"date":"2013-12-19T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T07:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2013-12-20T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:34:17","slug":"other-places-cerra-on-that-desmond-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/12\/other-places-cerra-on-that-desmond-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Cerra on That Desmond Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Steve-Cerra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Steve-Cerra.jpg\" alt=\"Steve-Cerra\" width=\"90\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4669\" \/><\/a>Steve Cerra, the proprietor of the endlessly interesting <em>Jazz Profiles<\/em> blog, has posted a new piece about <em>Take Five: The Public And Private Lives Of Paul Desmond<\/em>. In it, he says that the book would make a good Christmas present, a suggestion that I wouldn&#8217;t dream of challenging. Steve observes that any stocking the book might stuff would have to be huge. That was true in the days when <em>Take Five<\/em> existed only as a hard cover volume. Now, it is an eBook, meaning that the recipient&#8217;s stocking can be the size of a Kindle or a bunch of digital 0s and 1s. <\/p>\n<p>To read Steve&#8217;s embarrassingly flattering assessment of the biography, with extensive excerpts, <a href=\"http:\/\/jazzprofiles.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/reprising-take-five-public-and-private.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. To find out how to obtain the eBook version, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/10\/reminder-the-paul-desmond-bio-is-now-digital.html\">go here<\/a>. Many thanks to Mr. Cerra for his kindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cerra, the proprietor of the endlessly interesting Jazz Profiles blog, has posted a new piece about Take Five: The Public And Private Lives Of Paul Desmond. In it, he says that the book would make a good Christmas present, a suggestion that I wouldn&#8217;t dream of challenging. Steve observes that any stocking the book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4669,"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-5320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","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=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}