{"id":1591,"date":"2009-05-11T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/05\/a-jazz-memoir-in-verse\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T19:15:19","slug":"a-jazz-memoir-in-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/11\/a-jazz-memoir-in-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"A Jazz Memoir in Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.shelf-awareness.com\/nview.jsp?nohead=1&amp;appid=411&amp;j=682362\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Shelf-Awareness<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Birth of the Cool: Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sbschools.org\/fossamusic\/files\/2009\/02\/milesdavis20346181151.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"207\" height=\"135\" align=\"right\" \/>I know, Miles,<br \/>\nyou didn&#8217;t have rural southern Minnesota<br \/>\nin mind when you<br \/>\nblew your classic mute<br \/>\non your <em>Birth of the Cool<\/em><br \/>\nsessions in New York, circa 1949.<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s the way the paper-thin<br \/>\nice forms on the edge of the lake<br \/>\ntoday in late October:<br \/>\nmeeting at the cold, dark water&#8217;s edge<br \/>\n&#8211;still open and free<br \/>\nthough not for long&#8211;<br \/>\nwith the ripples of these short, choppy<br \/>\nmuted notes of yours<br \/>\nblown just out of reach<br \/>\nthis cool windy autumn morning.<\/p>\n<p>excerpted from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stompin-Grand-Terrace-Memoir-Verse\/dp\/0979650917\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1242069264&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Stompin&#8217; at the Grand Terrace: A Jazz Memoir in Verse by Philip Bryant<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.shelf-awareness.com\/nview.jsp?nohead=1&amp;appid=411&amp;j=682362\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at Shelf-Awareness.com &#8211; about 2\/3 scroll down the page<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Shelf-Awareness Birth of the Cool: Minnesota I know, Miles, you didn&#8217;t have rural southern Minnesota in mind when you blew your classic mute on your Birth of the Cool sessions in New York, circa 1949. But it&#8217;s the way the paper-thin ice forms on the edge of the lake today in late October: meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}