{"id":8261,"date":"2017-03-13T17:29:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8261"},"modified":"2017-03-15T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T04:41:44","slug":"monday-recommendation-bob-porters-soul-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/03\/monday-recommendation-bob-porters-soul-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Bob Porter&#8217;s Soul Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bob Porter<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2mTUB0I\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Soul Jazz: Jazz In The Black Community, 1945-1975<\/em><\/a>, Xlibris<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Soul-Jazz-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8262\" \/>Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good to get back to the basics. Bob Porter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new book guides you there. For decades, Porter has disseminated the jazz basics by way of records he has produced, liner notes he has written, and radio programs he has hosted. He is <a href=\"http:\/\/wbgo.org\/people\/bob-porter#stream\/0\"target=\"_blank\">active today<\/a> on WBGO, a leading jazz station. Among the many artists he has brought to public attention are Gene Ammons, Hank Crawford, Jimmy McGriff, Horace Silver, Harold Mabern, David \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fathead\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Newman and Houston Person. An example from among the extensive list of Porter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s productions is the 1969 Person album <em>Goodness<\/em>, which included the soul hit, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jamilah.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uqDXONBcwYY\"target=\"_blank\">listen to &#8220;Jamilah&#8221; here<\/a>). Porter writes clearly and comprehensively, incorporating his vast knowledge of leading soul jazz musicians and personal experience with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Porter, Soul Jazz: Jazz In The Black Community, 1945-1975, Xlibris Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good to get back to the basics. Bob Porter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new book guides you there. For decades, Porter has disseminated the jazz basics by way of records he has produced, liner notes he has written, and radio programs he has hosted. He is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8262,"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-8261","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\/8261","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=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}