{"id":7474,"date":"2016-04-15T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2016-04-15T17:13:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T00:13:40","slug":"blossom-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/04\/blossom-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossom Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cycling expedition took me through the upper reaches of apple country where the orchards are in bloom. It was a fairly mild winter around here but there was plenty of snow in the mountains, so there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good flow of irrigation water and the blossoms are signaling that there will be a large crop\u00e2\u20ac\u201d if the weather cooperates and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get a late freeze.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Orchard-on-McCullough-41516.jpg\" alt=\"Orchard on McCullough 41516\" width=\"600\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Orchard-on-McCullough-41516.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Orchard-on-McCullough-41516-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My search for a new jazz version of the obvious choice of a song about apple blossoms turned up nothing. There is no new version. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too bad. The piece has nice harmonic changes; the younger players are missing an opportunity. Therefore we turn, not reluctantly, to Jo Stafford, Dick Hyman and Ruby Braff. Here is Ms. Stafford in 1946 with Nat Cole on piano, nice little solos by trumpeter Ray Lynn and tenor saxophonist Herbie Haymer and the orchestra conducted by Paul Weston. Listen to this woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s phrasing. She was a wonder.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tv4IFBLVciE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At their duo concert in New York in 1982, Hyman played a Wurlitzer Theater Organ and Braff played cornet. The concert recording was originally issued on LP and cassette.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S_7-s1XNzrc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Arbors reissued the Hyman\/Braff album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/America-Beautiful-Braff\/dp\/B00008GQCL\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20\" target=\"_blank\">on CD , <\/a>with additional music, in 2002.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Stafford recording is included in several collections of her work, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000TETEVI\/?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;keywords=Jo%20Stafford&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;qid=1460764099&amp;s=music&amp;sr=1-32&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cycling expedition took me through the upper reaches of apple country where the orchards are in bloom. It was a fairly mild winter around here but there was plenty of snow in the mountains, so there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good flow of irrigation water and the blossoms are signaling that there will be a large crop\u00e2\u20ac\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7475,"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-7474","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\/7474","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=7474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}