{"id":8419,"date":"2017-06-05T18:08:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T01:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8419"},"modified":"2017-06-05T18:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T01:08:46","slug":"monday-recommendation-bengt-hallberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/06\/monday-recommendation-bengt-hallberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Bengt Hallberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengt Hallberg Trio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Bengt-Hallberg-Dinah\/release\/7711987\"target=\"_blank\">Dinah<\/a> (Phillips)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Hallberg-Dinah-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Hallberg-Dinah-Cover.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Hallberg-Dinah-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Hallberg-Dinah-Cover-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Hallberg-Dinah-Cover-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>When the Swedish pianist Bengt Hallberg died four years ago at the age of 80, most of his obituaries included a quote from a 1950s Miles Davis blindfold test that included Stan Getz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebrated recording of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ack V\u00c3\u00a4rmeland du sk\u00c3\u00b6na,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (aka \u00e2\u20ac\u009dDear Old Stockholm\u00e2\u20ac\u009d).   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The piano player gasses me . . . I never heard anybody play in a high register like that. So clean, and he swings and plays his own things\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Dinah<\/em>, One of Hallberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most rewarding trio albums, has seldom made it across the Atlantic. Jan Lundgren says it was important to him as he developed into a celebrated and important successor to Hallberg. CDs of <em>Dinah<\/em> are hard to find, but an online search turned up a retailer with a small stash of the vinyl albums. (Full disclosure: I have no connection with the seller).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengt Hallberg Trio, Dinah (Phillips) When the Swedish pianist Bengt Hallberg died four years ago at the age of 80, most of his obituaries included a quote from a 1950s Miles Davis blindfold test that included Stan Getz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebrated recording of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ack V\u00c3\u00a4rmeland du sk\u00c3\u00b6na,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (aka \u00e2\u20ac\u009dDear Old Stockholm\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). The piano player gasses me . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8420,"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-8419","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\/8419","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=8419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}