{"id":7881,"date":"2016-10-12T13:44:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2016-10-12T22:45:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:45:47","slug":"monday-recommendation-cecil-payne-duke-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/10\/monday-recommendation-cecil-payne-duke-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Cecil Payne &#038; Duke Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/713b9NhPj8L._SX522_-e1476337356663.jpg\" alt=\"713b9nhpj8l-_sx522_\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7882\" \/><strong>Cecil Payne &#038; Duke Jordan<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dL8Q3p\"target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Brothers<\/a> (Elemental Music)<\/p>\n<p>This classic pairing is an essential repertoire item in Elemental Music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s series reissuing Xanadu albums from the 1970s. Payne (1922-2007) was among the great baritone saxophonists of his generation, perpetually in demand as a big band sideman and as a soloist. From his early days with Charlie Parker, Jordan (1922-2006) attracted admiration for the softness and fluidity of his keyboard touch and his harmonic ingenuity. Together with Sam Jones on bass and the young drummer Al Foster, they explore \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jordu\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No Problem,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jordan compositions even then established as jazz standards, plus Jordan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jazz Vendor,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d three of Payne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pieces and the standards \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Should Care\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Want To Talk About You.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Payne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cu-Ba\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a highlight, not only for the leaders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work but also for Foster\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solo. It&#8217;s good to have this available again.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecil Payne &#038; Duke Jordan, Brooklyn Brothers (Elemental Music) This classic pairing is an essential repertoire item in Elemental Music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s series reissuing Xanadu albums from the 1970s. Payne (1922-2007) was among the great baritone saxophonists of his generation, perpetually in demand as a big band sideman and as a soloist. From his early days with [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881","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=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}