{"id":9587,"date":"2018-05-23T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T23:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9587"},"modified":"2018-05-23T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T23:46:55","slug":"oh-yes-tom-talberts-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/05\/oh-yes-tom-talberts-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Yes, Tom Talbert&#8217;s Music&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s posting revisiting an early &lt;em&gt;Rifftides&lt;\/em&gt; piece about Tom Talbert (pictured ca.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tom-Talbert-1950.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"150\" \/> 1956), the staff was remiss in not including examples of Talbert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remedy that. From his remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Lq0SLp\">Bix Duke Fats<\/a> album, we will hear his transformation of two Duke Ellington compositions. The first is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do Nothing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTil You Hear From Me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one of Ellington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best-known popular hits; the second, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ko Ko,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is perhaps his most celebrated pioneering of bitonal harmonies).&#8221;\u00a0 Both were from 1943. Talbert gives them his own distinctive flavors.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rqMKoKeASTk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>&lt;div<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Soloists and featured players were Eddie Bert, trombone; Jimmy Buffington, French horn; Aaron Sachs, tenor saxophone; Barry Galbraith, guitar; Herb Geller, alto saxophone; and Joe Wilder, trumpet. Oscar Pettiford was the bassist, Osie Johnson the drummer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s posting revisiting an early &lt;em&gt;Rifftides&lt;\/em&gt; piece about Tom Talbert (pictured ca. 1956), the staff was remiss in not including examples of Talbert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remedy that. From his remarkable Bix Duke Fats album, we will hear his transformation of two Duke Ellington compositions. The first is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do Nothing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTil You Hear From Me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&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-9587","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\/9587","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=9587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}