{"id":7537,"date":"2016-05-21T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2016-05-21T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:21:52","slug":"weekend-extra-fathead-newmans-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/05\/weekend-extra-fathead-newmans-hard-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Fathead Newman&#8217;s &#8220;Hard Times&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/David-Fathead-Newman.jpg\" alt=\"David Fathead Newman\" width=\"190\" height=\"218\" \/>When he was a member of the Ray Charles band in the 1950s, saxophonist David \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fathead\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Newman was frequently the featured soloist on Paul Mitchell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and George V. Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hard Times.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It became a musical signature that Newman made indelibly his own. He featured the piece for the rest of his life. In this case, he played it with an all-star group assembled for a festival in New Jersey in&#8212;we think&#8212;1993. The other members of the band are Steve Nelson, vibraphone; Walter Bishop, Jr., piano; David Wiliams, bass; and Eddie Gladden drums.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8TPV4n3O5y4?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">David Newman was born in 1933. He died in 2009.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he was a member of the Ray Charles band in the 1950s, saxophonist David \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fathead\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Newman was frequently the featured soloist on Paul Mitchell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and George V. Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hard Times.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It became a musical signature that Newman made indelibly his own. He featured the piece for the rest of his life. In this case, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7539,"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-7537","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\/7537","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=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}