{"id":9136,"date":"2018-02-15T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:32:37","slug":"correspondence-oscar-peterson-and-nat-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/02\/correspondence-oscar-peterson-and-nat-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence: Oscar Peterson And Nat Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frequent <em>Rifftides<\/em> correspondent Svetlana Ilicheva writes from Moscow:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-1.19.42-PM-e1518729900657.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wonder if it is a well-known thing that Oscar Peterson sang? It was a great surprise to find this recording, not only for me but for some of my <em>Facebook&lt;\/em friends.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mo3GPJiohaA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nat Cole was one of Peterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s primary piano influences. His effect on the younger man also extended to Peterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s singing. In <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2suLUyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this 1965 album<\/a>, Peterson paid tribute to Cole in both areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequent Rifftides correspondent Svetlana Ilicheva writes from Moscow: I wonder if it is a well-known thing that Oscar Peterson sang? It was a great surprise to find this recording, not only for me but for some of my Facebook&lt;\/em friends. &nbsp; Nat Cole was one of Peterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s primary piano influences. His effect on the younger [&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-9136","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\/9136","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=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}