{"id":763,"date":"2006-12-16T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=763"},"modified":"2006-12-16T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T09:05:00","slug":"sound_check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/12\/sound_check\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hippest and most eclectic programs dealing with music and other cultural matters is <em>Sound Check<\/em> on WNYC-FM, New York. Monday, December 18, at 2:15 p.m. EDT I will be with <em>Sound Check<\/em>&#8216;s host John Schaefer to discuss the best jazz recordings of 2006. To join us in the New York metropolitan area, go to 93.9 on your radio. Elsewhere, listen on WNYC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/soundcheck\/\"target=\"_blank\">streaming internet audio<\/a>.<br \/>\nAs we discussed procedure for the broadcast, I told Allison Lichter of the <em>Sound Check<\/em> staff that my list of &#8220;best&#8221; CDs is subjective and might have been considerably different if I had compiled it a week earlier or a week later. When it comes to art, the concept of &#8220;best&#8221; is shot through with the philosophy of popularity contests and should probably be avoided. But, surely, you don&#8217;t expect an old broadcaster to turn down a chance to be on the radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hippest and most eclectic programs dealing with music and other cultural matters is Sound Check on WNYC-FM, New York. Monday, December 18, at 2:15 p.m. EDT I will be with Sound Check&#8216;s host John Schaefer to discuss the best jazz recordings of 2006. To join us in the New York metropolitan area, [&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-763","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\/763","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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}