{"id":7245,"date":"2016-01-14T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T07:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2016-01-15T00:02:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T08:02:33","slug":"danny-barkers-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/01\/danny-barkers-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Barker&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Danny-Barker.jpg\" alt=\"Danny Barker\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" \/>One of the great pleasures of my years in New Orleans was a friendship with Danny Barker (1909-1994). After he moved back to his hometown from New York, Danny became a guiding light to young musicians, curator of the New Orleans Jazz Museum and a living link to the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical past. The countless youngsters who learned from him came to know his history as a member of the influential Swing Era bands of Lucky Millinder and Cab Calloway, one of the music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great rhythm guitarists and a writer of songs that last. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a day late in remembering what would have been his 107th birthday and happy to recognize it with this recording of Danny performing his most celebrated composition. At 01:46, watch for a photo of Danny with his wife, the fine blues singer Blue Lu Barker. Following that, you&#8217;ll see him with his Cab Calloway colleague bassist Milt Hinton.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yYpOSOKl4kk\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To see Nat Cole and Johnny Mercer doing a television version of their hit record of Danny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s masterpiece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f2eusOFmOg8\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great pleasures of my years in New Orleans was a friendship with Danny Barker (1909-1994). After he moved back to his hometown from New York, Danny became a guiding light to young musicians, curator of the New Orleans Jazz Museum and a living link to the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical past. The countless youngsters [&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-7245","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\/7245","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=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}