{"id":7446,"date":"2016-04-05T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T03:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2016-04-05T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T03:20:02","slug":"forrest-westbrooks-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/04\/forrest-westbrooks-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Westbrook&#8217;s Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/712CGmiFWML._SX522_.jpg\" alt=\"712CGmiFWML._SX522_\" width=\"222\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/712CGmiFWML._SX522_.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/712CGmiFWML._SX522_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/712CGmiFWML._SX522_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/712CGmiFWML._SX522_-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/712CGmiFWML._SX522_-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/>Early this year I had the privilege of writing notes for Forrest Westbrook&#8217;s only album as a leader. The CD was released five-and-a-half decades after it was recorded and two years after the pianist&#8217;s death at 86. The album is bringing overdue notice to Westbrook, a quiet, almost secretive figure in the southern California jazz movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Standard journalism practice is for a writer never to promote a project in which he has been involved. So, report me to the Journalism Police, but it&#8217;s important that serious listeners know about Westbrook&#8217;s work. Therefore, my clever surreptitious ploy is to let fellow blogger Marc Myers carry the ball. With his customary accuracy, Marc describes Westbrook as remarkable. To see his coverage of the pianist&#8217;s album, go to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/2016\/04\/forrest-westbrook-remarkable.html\"target=\"_blank\">JazzWax<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p>For a <em>Rifftides<\/em> review of the late trumpeter Carmell Jones&#8217;s recently discovered album featuring Westbrook,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/06\/monday-recommendation-carmell-jones.html\"> go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this year I had the privilege of writing notes for Forrest Westbrook&#8217;s only album as a leader. The CD was released five-and-a-half decades after it was recorded and two years after the pianist&#8217;s death at 86. The album is bringing overdue notice to Westbrook, a quiet, almost secretive figure in the southern California jazz [&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-7446","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\/7446","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=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}