{"id":612,"date":"2006-08-17T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T21:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=612"},"modified":"2006-08-17T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T21:43:38","slug":"listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/08\/listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely pass along promotional announcements, but this one is too intriguing not to deserve an exception.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>STANLEY CROUCH, GEORGE AVAKIAN  AND MICHAEL JAMES WITH CHRISTOPHER LYDON TONIGHT AT <u>7 PM (EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME)<\/u> TO DISCUSS DUKE ELLINGTON, NEWPORT JAZZ AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY<br \/>\nOn <em>Open Source<\/em> On WGBH 89.7<br \/>\n<em>Open Source<\/em> airs Monday through Thursday from 7pm-8 pm on WGBH 89.7 and streams at <a href=\"http:\/\/wgbh.org\/listen\"target=\"_blank\">wgbh.org\/listen<\/a><br \/>\nOn July 7, 1956, Duke Ellington played the Newport Jazz Festival. Paul Gonsalves soloed for six minutes on &#8220;Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue,&#8221; the crowd exploded, an album was cut and our century &#8211; the American century, the Jazz century &#8211; found its high point. Christopher Lydon says, &#8220;Fifty summers after the Newport Suite and Paul Gonzalves&#8217; 27 choruses of blues, we&#8217;re going savor a golden moment in American life with  (music critic and author) Stanley Crouch; the Columbia record producer George Avakian; the Newport impresario then and now, George Wein; and with Duke Ellington&#8217;s ever-eloquent and all-witnessing nephew Michael James.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Crouch, Avakian and James are articulate men of, shall we say, firm opinions.  Lydon is a skilled interviewer. It would be surprising if they were boring on the subject of Ellington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely pass along promotional announcements, but this one is too intriguing not to deserve an exception. STANLEY CROUCH, GEORGE AVAKIAN AND MICHAEL JAMES WITH CHRISTOPHER LYDON TONIGHT AT 7 PM (EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME) TO DISCUSS DUKE ELLINGTON, NEWPORT JAZZ AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY On Open Source On WGBH 89.7 Open Source airs Monday through [&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-612","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\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}