{"id":8285,"date":"2017-03-24T15:36:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T22:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2017-03-24T15:36:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T22:36:03","slug":"its-steve-kuhns-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/03\/its-steve-kuhns-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Steve Kuhn&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kuhn-Smiling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"191\" \/>Pianist Steve Kuhn, born in 1938, is celebrating his birthday. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebrate with him as he, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Billy Drummond play Charlie Parker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Confirmation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kuhn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unaccompanied introduction explores a harmonic relationship between the Parker piece and the 1940s hit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Masquerade Is Over.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In the improvisation, Kuhn, Swallow and Drummond explore their own close relationship.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wRxAPqj-_R8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kuhn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2mAs2GD\" target=\"_blank\">most recent album<\/a> includes Swallow and drummer Joey Baron. Full disclosure: I wrote the liner notes.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pianist Steve Kuhn, born in 1938, is celebrating his birthday. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebrate with him as he, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Billy Drummond play Charlie Parker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Confirmation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kuhn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unaccompanied introduction explores a harmonic relationship between the Parker piece and the 1940s hit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Masquerade Is Over.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In the improvisation, Kuhn, Swallow and Drummond explore their [&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-8285","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\/8285","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=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}