{"id":748,"date":"2006-12-08T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=748"},"modified":"2006-12-08T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T09:05:00","slug":"hooray_for_the_red_white_blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/12\/hooray_for_the_red_white_blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray For The Red, White &#038; Blue And Tommy Flanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you are looking for surprises on <em>YouTube<\/em>, do not bypass <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F2MLurkhiDw\"target=\"_blank\">Tommy Flanagan <\/a>playing Billy Strayhorn&#8217;s &#8220;Rain Check.&#8221; The 1991 performance at a club in Germany was with his trio; George Mraz on bass, Bobby Durham on drums. The video and audio quality are unusually high for a <em>YouTube<\/em> clip, with matching direction and camera work. Flanagan&#8217;s Ellington quotes in his solo might be expected, but&#8230;&#8221;Star and Stripes Forever?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you are looking for surprises on YouTube, do not bypass Tommy Flanagan playing Billy Strayhorn&#8217;s &#8220;Rain Check.&#8221; The 1991 performance at a club in Germany was with his trio; George Mraz on bass, Bobby Durham on drums. The video and audio quality are unusually high for a YouTube clip, with matching direction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}