{"id":6570,"date":"2015-04-08T00:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2015-04-08T00:31:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:31:50","slug":"other-places-sloane-on-mcrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/04\/other-places-sloane-on-mcrae\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Sloane On McRae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;S99vrJ0cVK5Kb3jyKGEIvA6sc3MS8c1A&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carol-Sloane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carol-Sloane.jpg\" alt=\"Carol Sloane\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carol-Sloane.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carol-Sloane-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carol-Sloane-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>On her blog, Carol Sloane (pictured above) observes the birthday of Carmen McRae (1920-1994), the woman she calls her, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153girl friend, confidant and Sister Singer Superior.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The two singers had a long, rare, honest, sometimes tempestuous<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carmen-McCrae-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carmen-McCrae-2.jpg\" alt=\"Carmen McCrae 2\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carmen-McCrae-2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carmen-McCrae-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Carmen-McCrae-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> friendship that lasted until Carmen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death. For Ms. Sloane, the friendship continues. Her remembrance incorporates video of McRae in concert in 1988.  Tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan is the guest artist with Carmen and her trio. To read Sloaney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tribute and see the video of McRae at the height of her powers singing lots of Thelonious Monk, among other songs, <a href=\"http:\/\/sloaneview.blogspot.com\"target=\"_blank\">go to SloaneView<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For an account of the night Carmen came to my rescue, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/04\/memories_of_carmen_mcrae.html\">this <em>Rifftides<\/em> post<\/a> from 2008.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;S99vrJ0cVK5Kb3jyKGEIvA6sc3MS8c1A&#8221;] On her blog, Carol Sloane (pictured above) observes the birthday of Carmen McRae (1920-1994), the woman she calls her, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153girl friend, confidant and Sister Singer Superior.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The two singers had a long, rare, honest, sometimes tempestuous friendship that lasted until Carmen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death. For Ms. Sloane, the friendship continues. Her remembrance incorporates video of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6572,"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-6570","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\/6570","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=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}