{"id":7669,"date":"2016-07-22T19:24:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7669"},"modified":"2016-07-22T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T02:33:07","slug":"speaking-of-bill-mays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/07\/speaking-of-bill-mays\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Bill Mays\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After posting (see the previous exhibit) last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s piece about Bill Mays and our impending visit to Sweden, it occurred to me that I failed to include an example of Mr. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"160\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7671\" \/>Mays\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 prowess as a solo pianist. His gift has been on display since he came to prominence in California in the early 1960s. Bill was one of the pianists featured in the lamented Concord Records <em>Maybeck<\/em> solo piano collection. Why Concord let so valuable a series go out of print is fodder for a congressional investigation. Fortunately, at least one example of Bill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contribution survives on the internet.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BTxNW49xKuQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bill&#8217;s Maybeck album hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t entirely disappeared. It is available <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2a2QMzh\" target=\"_blank\">at this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After posting (see the previous exhibit) last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s piece about Bill Mays and our impending visit to Sweden, it occurred to me that I failed to include an example of Mr. Mays\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 prowess as a solo pianist. His gift has been on display since he came to prominence in California in the early 1960s. Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7671,"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-7669","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\/7669","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=7669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}