{"id":6165,"date":"2014-11-03T22:47:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T06:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2014-11-03T22:47:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T06:47:48","slug":"red-mitchell-simple-isnt-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/11\/red-mitchell-simple-isnt-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Mitchell: Simple Isn&#8217;t Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;tBJwE78l3acFbjEN1JEO4pGW1xb90H4x&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The governing principle of the Dayna Stephens album recommended in the post below brought to mind the philosophy of Red Mitchell (1927-1992). \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Simple isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t easy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the great bassist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Red-Mitchell-Simple....jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Red-Mitchell-Simple....jpg\" alt=\"Red Mitchell Simple...\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Red-Mitchell-Simple....jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Red-Mitchell-Simple...-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Red-Mitchell-Simple...-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>often said. He wrote a song and made an album using that title. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Simple-Isnt-Easy-Red-Mitchell\/dp\/B0000035XP\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;keywords=Red%20Mitchell%20Simple%20Isn%27t%20Easy&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1415063266&#038;s=music&#038;sr=1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">The album<\/a> is a quirky jewel of his discography, as endearing as when it first appeared 30 years ago. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mitchell all the way; just Red, his bass, his piano, his singing and his compositions. In addition to the title tune, the songs include \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a Homeboy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Emulate the Japanese\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Don Ellis Now?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Red Mitchell now?&#151;now that we need his wit, his incomparable bass playing and his songs promoting love and understanding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;tBJwE78l3acFbjEN1JEO4pGW1xb90H4x&#8221;] The governing principle of the Dayna Stephens album recommended in the post below brought to mind the philosophy of Red Mitchell (1927-1992). \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Simple isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t easy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the great bassist often said. He wrote a song and made an album using that title. The album is a quirky jewel of his discography, as endearing as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-6165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","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=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}