{"id":6758,"date":"2015-07-04T00:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T07:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2015-07-04T07:55:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T14:55:50","slug":"4th-of-july-music-lots-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/07\/4th-of-july-music-lots-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Of July Music\u00e2\u20ac\u201dLots Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;vfhCUAuB4vlhXm8lArlMKmMR85v2wSrb&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Yankee-Doodle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Yankee-Doodle.jpg\" alt=\"Yankee Doodle\" width=\"210\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6759\" \/><\/a>The <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff devoted a meeting to choosing a piece of music to bring you on this most American of holidays. After what seemed like hours of discussion, we bogged down in disagreement. Feelings may not have been running as high as in the Greek referendum campaign, but failure to reach a compromise had everyone on edge. We had a four-way tie. No one was giving in. Finally, the senior vice president for internal affairs came up with a plan that broke the tension. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Play them all,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wait a minute,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the office boy said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No one will listen to all of those pieces.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Too bad for them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Sr. VP said, firmly. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Their loss.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She was persuasive. When the vote came, it was a unanimous decision. So, you get: <\/p>\n<p>Al Cohn with Barry Harris, Sam Jones and Leroy Williams<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1ZtXhFR-m4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sunday In America\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from Ornette Coleman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Skies Of America<\/em> with the London Symphony Orchstra under David Measham<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_melDEf3XGM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><p>Charles Ives\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <em>Decoration Day<\/em>, Zubin Meta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qDNs9V1kbB0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>And James Cagney in the title number from the 1942 film <em>Yankee Doodle Dandy<\/em> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fktxkO37zNM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Now, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready for that picnic.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;vfhCUAuB4vlhXm8lArlMKmMR85v2wSrb&#8221;] The Rifftides staff devoted a meeting to choosing a piece of music to bring you on this most American of holidays. After what seemed like hours of discussion, we bogged down in disagreement. Feelings may not have been running as high as in the Greek referendum campaign, but failure to reach a compromise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6759,"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-6758","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\/6758","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=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}