{"id":605,"date":"2006-08-24T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=605"},"modified":"2006-08-24T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T08:01:00","slug":"book_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/08\/book_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;location=%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0300106734%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1156395695%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Composers&#8217; Voices from Ives to Ellington <\/em><\/a>(Yale). This is the book that took first place over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parksidepublications.com\/takefive.html\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond<\/em><\/a> in the Independent Publishers awards competition. But, no hard feelings, only gratitude for a hefty volume that presents oral history in a readable&#8211;and listenable&#8211;form. The book includes two CDs with, in many cases, the voices of the composers. Aaron Copland: &#8220;Music needn&#8217;t be so high-falutin&#8217; that it becomes abstract and just pure notes, you know.&#8221; Duke Ellington: &#8220;Everything is so highly personalized that you just can&#8217;t find a category big enough. And &#8216;jazz&#8217; certainly isn&#8217;t big enough.&#8221; If you wish to know more about Eubie Blake, Mel Powell, Nadia Boulanger, Edgard Var\u00c3\u00a8se or Nicolas Slonimsky, among many others, this is a book for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve, Composers&#8217; Voices from Ives to Ellington (Yale). This is the book that took first place over Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond in the Independent Publishers awards competition. But, no hard feelings, only gratitude for a hefty volume that presents oral history in a readable&#8211;and [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}