{"id":93,"date":"2005-08-02T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-08-02T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T08:05:00","slug":"taking_issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/08\/taking_issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Brown writes about a couple of points with which he takes issue in a recent Rifftides<\/em> piece, Harmony And History<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

First, I take great pleasure in sitting in a Starbucks or other
\nsmall restaurant and hearing QUALITY music in the background (or
\neven the foreground). It appears that Starbucks did a lot to make
\nthis practice widespread, and I applaud it. In fact, many of the
\nrestaurants that my wife and I patronize for the food have adopted
\nquality jazz as their background. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few years ago, I walked into a Panera Bread restaurant to hear a
\ntrack from Clifford, Sonny, and Max’s Joy Spring <\/a>session, and
\nwondering if they had ever guessed that day what masterpieces they
\nwere creating, and that the music might not only outlive them, but
\nalso become music for the masses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And on the topic of late night satellite radio, I have no quibble
\nat all with the high quality show that Bob Parlocha<\/a> does on a
\nhundred or more stations every night. When this show was in the
\nplanning stages, an engineer friend who works for WFMT, the
\nsyndicator of the show, asked me for suggestions of who might host
\nit. One of those I mentioned was jazz trumpeter Art Hoyle, a
\nChicagoan who both loves the music (when I’m out listening to
\nsomeone good, Art is nearly always there too) and whose great voice
\nhas long made him a favorite for voiceover work. He didn’t get that
\ngig, but he is “voicing” one of the satellite jazz channels (XM or
\nSirius). He could have a lot to say about all of the music, but I
\ndoubt that he does (I don’t have a receiver for those sources).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like many jazz fans of my generation, I was lucky enough to grow up
\nwith GREAT jazz radio, and consider it critical to the good health
\nof the art form. Great jazz radio should be both entertainment and
\neducation, and the great jazz jocks could do both very well. And I
\nagree that the currently widespread practice of not talking about
\nthe music, failing to identify soloist, sidemen, and arrangers,
\netc. is doing jazz a great disservice. The great jazz jocks I grew
\nup with were my early teachers — guys like Dick Martin, Sid McCoy,
\nHugh McPherson, Daddyo Daylie, Harry Abraham, Bill Artis, and Dick
\nBuckley were some of them. Buckley is still on the air in Chicago.
\nThe rest are gone. But I’ll put Parlocha in their class. I only
\nwish he was on the air in Chicago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jim Brown is a distinguished audio expert who, among his other accomplishments, recorded Carmen McRae at Ratso’s<\/a>, that fine two-CD set released a few years after she died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Brown writes about a couple of points with which he takes issue in a recent Rifftides piece, Harmony And History. First, I take great pleasure in sitting in a Starbucks or other small restaurant and hearing QUALITY music in the background (or even the foreground). It appears that Starbucks did a lot to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-93","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\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}