{"id":9415,"date":"2018-04-19T20:37:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9415"},"modified":"2018-04-19T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T03:37:16","slug":"armstrong-and-ellington-azalea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/04\/armstrong-and-ellington-azalea\/","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong And Ellington: Azalea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until the past couple of days, spring around here was a date on the calendar and a rumor.&#8221;\u00a0But now there are tulips in front of the house. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180418_133811276-e1524193284998.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"270\" \/>And magnolia blossoms 15 feet from the kitchen window.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180419_163211991-e1524193428910.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><br \/>\nNext on the list was azaleas, but during my cycling expedition, there was not an azalea to be found. Then, I remembered this one:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/szs9KDOOwX0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The enlightened regular <em>Rifftides<\/em> audience doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need IDs, but just in case someone new dropped by, these were the players: Louis Armstrong, trumpet and voice; Duke Ellington, piano, with drummer Danny Barcelona and bassist Mort Herbert from Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rhythm section in 1961, when that was recorded. The album&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2F1WnC6\">has been reissued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bonus, azaleas pirated from the internet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/87786694_XS-e1524193529593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until the past couple of days, spring around here was a date on the calendar and a rumor.&#8221;\u00a0But now there are tulips in front of the house. And magnolia blossoms 15 feet from the kitchen window. Next on the list was azaleas, but during my cycling expedition, there was not an azalea to be found. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9418,"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-9415","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\/9415","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=9415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}