{"id":7425,"date":"2016-03-21T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7425"},"modified":"2016-03-21T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T05:01:27","slug":"thad-mel-the-tradition-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/03\/thad-mel-the-tradition-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Thad &#038; Mel: The Tradition Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thad-and-Mel.jpg\" alt=\"Thad-and-Mel\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thad-and-Mel.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thad-and-Mel-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thad-and-Mel-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>You may recall that a couple of weeks ago the <em>Rifftides<\/em> Monday Recommendation was an&#8221;\u00a0 album of recently discovered recordings by the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. This evening, the <em>PBS News Hour<\/em> closed with correspondent Jeffrey Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report on the continuing story of the band and the venerable New York City club where it was born. Anchor Judy Woodruff introduces the story following a message from a <em>News Hour<\/em> funder that supports independent non-commercial television news&#8212;an effort the <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff wholeheartedly endorses.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365697966\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that a couple of weeks ago the Rifftides Monday Recommendation was an&#8221;\u00a0 album of recently discovered recordings by the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. This evening, the PBS News Hour closed with correspondent Jeffrey Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report on the continuing story of the band and the venerable New York City club where it [&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-7425","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\/7425","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=7425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}