{"id":8707,"date":"2017-10-04T21:37:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8707"},"modified":"2017-10-04T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:42:48","slug":"steve-swallows-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/10\/steve-swallows-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Swallow&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-04-at-8.41.42-PM-e1507175407446.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"164\" \/>It just came to my attention that Steve Swallow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birth date today follows my own by just one day\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand a few years. The man who decades ago made an honest jazz instrument of the electric bass is now 77. In this video from a time when he and I were even younger, he plays his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ladies in Mercedes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with harpist Emily Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Larry Schnyder, trumpeter Lew Soloff, and drummer Danny Gottlieb. <em>Youtube<\/em> renders anonymous the string players in the orchestra. I hope that Mr. Swallow had as good a time on his birthday today as he obviously did in this 1989 performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xtZ_pKQad9w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s late in the day out here in the west, but the wish for many happy returns is no less enthusiastic than it would have been at dawn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It just came to my attention that Steve Swallow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birth date today follows my own by just one day\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand a few years. The man who decades ago made an honest jazz instrument of the electric bass is now 77. In this video from a time when he and I were even younger, he plays his [&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-8707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707","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=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}