{"id":9216,"date":"2018-03-07T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9216"},"modified":"2018-03-07T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:36:57","slug":"just-because-its-almost-spring-spring-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/03\/just-because-its-almost-spring-spring-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Because It&#8217;s (almost) Spring, Spring, Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coltrane project (<em>two items down<\/em>) is progressing to the extent that I was able to get out the office for a short bicycle excursion. Tooling around the neighbohood, I saw these harbingers of spring thriving near the trunk of a venerable birch tree.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180306_150707864_HDR-e1520457788241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The calendar says that spring is officially two weeks away, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s close enough that songs about the season are calling. Here are two versions of one of the best, Burke and Van Heusen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Suddenly It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Spring.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d First, June Christy sings it in a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2oTKV6k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1960 recording<\/a>. Al Viola plays the lovely guitar introduction. The flute obbligato is by Bud Shank, long before he put the instrument in storage.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P4xornBn_uM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Jack Brownlow trio follows, with Brownlow, piano; Jeff Johnson, bass; and Dean Hodges, drums. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s from <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2G4Jcmi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Brownlow album<\/a> with a title inspired by the song.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgs8Agth3ug\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>From the <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhappy springtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coltrane project (two items down) is progressing to the extent that I was able to get out the office for a short bicycle excursion. Tooling around the neighbohood, I saw these harbingers of spring thriving near the trunk of a venerable birch tree. The calendar says that spring is officially two weeks away, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9217,"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-9216","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\/9216","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=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}