{"id":8732,"date":"2017-10-13T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2017-10-13T12:14:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:14:27","slug":"careful-that-day-is-here-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/10\/careful-that-day-is-here-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Careful, That Day Is Here Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Monk-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Monk-head.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Monk-head-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/>Of course, <strong><em>you<\/em><\/strong> are not superstitious about Friday the 13<sup>th<\/sup>; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all of those silly other people. Thelonious Monk must not have been worried by it, or he wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have named a composition after this notoriously risky day. Its performance was one of the highlights of his celebrated recording made at New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Town Hall in February of 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The other musicians in the ten-piece ensemble were Donald Byrd, trumpet; Eddie Bert, trombone; Robert Northern, French horn; Jay McCallister, tuba; Phil Woods, alto sax; Charlie Rouse, tenor sax; Pepper Adams, baritone sax; Sam Jones, bass; and Art Taylor, drums. The arrangement is by Hall Overton. The order of solos is Rouse, Monk, Woods and Byrd.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oi1159vzI8A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <em>Town Hall<\/em> concert album, a major entry in Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discography, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gBUD9q\">remains available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is the second Friday the 13<sup>th<\/sup> this year; the first was in January. Further FTT trivia: We will have two Friday the 13ths each year until 2020. Happy (if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the proper term) Friday the 13<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, you are not superstitious about Friday the 13th; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all of those silly other people. Thelonious Monk must not have been worried by it, or he wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have named a composition after this notoriously risky day. Its performance was one of the highlights of his celebrated recording made at New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Town Hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8733,"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-8732","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\/8732","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=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}