{"id":7865,"date":"2016-10-02T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2019-11-30T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:49:09","slug":"weekend-extra-eddie-duran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/10\/weekend-extra-eddie-duran\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Eddie Duran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1980 when Benny Goodman appeared at the Aurex Jazz Festival in Tokyo, he called on Eddie Duran<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/EDDIE_DURAN-2-e1475450951642.jpg\" alt=\"eddie_duran-2\" width=\"210\" height=\"180\" \/>&#8221;\u00a0to solo on Duke Ellington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prelude to a Kiss.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The video allows us an opportunity\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfar too rare\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto see and hear the elegance of a guitarist whose vast experience includes playing with Charlie Parker, Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, Vince Guaraldi, Red Norvo, Earl Hines and George Shearing. Yet, Duran (born in 1925) spent most of his career in and around his native San Francisco and has never received recognition commensurate with his talent.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mnz4o1dNWLs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Goodman musicians accompanying Duran were Al Obidenski, bass, and John Markham, drums.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1980 when Benny Goodman appeared at the Aurex Jazz Festival in Tokyo, he called on Eddie Duran&#8221;\u00a0to solo on Duke Ellington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prelude to a Kiss.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The video allows us an opportunity\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfar too rare\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto see and hear the elegance of a guitarist whose vast experience includes playing with Charlie Parker, Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, Vince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-7865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865","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=7865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}