{"id":6186,"date":"2014-11-09T20:24:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2014-11-09T20:24:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T04:24:17","slug":"sunset-without-and-with-mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/11\/sunset-without-and-with-mockingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset, Without And With Mockingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;98XJeTej1PQP3Wm71vQUl0e4GZQq3B0T&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The weather around here has been what meteorologists call, for lack of a more scientific term, variable. That means warm, cold, cloudy, sunny, rainy and&#151;while all that is going on&#151;fierce wind gusts blowing the beautiful fall leaves off the trees. Last evening, the cloudy and sunny elements combined to paint a sunset that lasted barely long for me to dash inside from the deck, grab a camera and get back in time to catch the final seconds of the show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sunset-11-9-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sunset-11-9-14.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset 11 9 14\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sunset-11-9-14.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sunset-11-9-14-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was too windy for any mockingbird to be out. Besides, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all headed south. But we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in luck. We can hear Duke Ellington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sunset And The Mockingbird.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Here are two versions, Ellington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ellington-Suites-Duke\/dp\/B000000YOT\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>The Queen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Suite<\/em><\/a>, and Tommy Flanagan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sunset-Mockingbird-Birthday-Tommy-Flanagan\/dp\/B000009RNX\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;keywords=tommy%20flanagan%20sunset%20and%20the%20mockingbird&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1415592154&#038;s=music&#038;sr=1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">from his album<\/a> that took its title from the name of the piece.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewLNK2F9Gsw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2OeiHPeHqqw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Improvisations in 1959 were by Ellington on piano and Jimmy Hamilton on clarinet. Pianist Flanagan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1998 trio included bassist Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;98XJeTej1PQP3Wm71vQUl0e4GZQq3B0T&#8221;] The weather around here has been what meteorologists call, for lack of a more scientific term, variable. That means warm, cold, cloudy, sunny, rainy and&#151;while all that is going on&#151;fierce wind gusts blowing the beautiful fall leaves off the trees. Last evening, the cloudy and sunny elements combined to paint a sunset that [&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-6186","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\/6186","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=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}