{"id":7221,"date":"2016-01-02T20:42:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2016-01-02T21:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T05:06:41","slug":"weekend-extra-jatp-living-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/01\/weekend-extra-jatp-living-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: JATP Living History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent a link to a photograph published by Joe Gromelski in the current issue of <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em>, the US military newspaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JATP-Folks-1956.jpg\" alt=\"JATP Folks 1956\" width=\"490\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JATP-Folks-1956.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JATP-Folks-1956-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><strong><em>Frankfurt, West Germany, March, 1956: <\/em><\/strong>The stars of the &#8220;Jazz at the Philharmonic&#8221; tour pose for a photo backstage at the Frankfurt Zoo Theater. In front are Herb Ellis and Ella Fitzgerald; in back, from left to right, are Oscar Peterson, Roy Eldridge, Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Illinois Jacquette, Gene Krupa and Flip Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>There does not seem to be video of precisely this JATP combination of musicians, but from the same year, here is impresario Norman Granz introducing some of them, plus Jo Jones. Jones demonstrates that among drummers there is still a reason that he is&#8221;\u00a0 known as Papa.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_OZgSVObvDA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The now-you-see-him, now-you-don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appearance of Nat Cole at the end of the clip makes it likely that the performance was not from Frankfurt but from Los Angeles and Cole\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s television show. JATP got around in those days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent a link to a photograph published by Joe Gromelski in the current issue of Stars and Stripes, the US military newspaper. Frankfurt, West Germany, March, 1956: The stars of the &#8220;Jazz at the Philharmonic&#8221; tour pose for a photo backstage at the Frankfurt Zoo Theater. In front are Herb Ellis and Ella [&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-7221","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\/7221","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=7221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}