{"id":173,"date":"2005-10-20T05:16:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2005-10-20T05:16:18","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T12:16:18","slug":"so-much-to-readso-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"So much to read&#8230;so little time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Doug Ramsey a\/k\/a Rifftides,  for introducing me (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/10\/weekend_extraov_1.html\"target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>) to <em>An Overgrown Path<\/em> . I may be late to the party, but no less appreciative of the fine sensibilities displayed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theovergrownpath.blogspot.com\"target=\"_blank\">there<\/a><\/strong>. I particularly enjoy the way many of the postings end: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you enjoyed this post take an overgrown path to ____<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The Monday October 10th  post, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theovergrownpath.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/journey-with-jack-reilly.html\"target=\"_blank\">Journey with Jack Reilly<\/a><\/strong> ,  led me to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theovergrownpath.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/michel-petrucciani.html\"target=\"_blank\">Michel Petrucciani<\/a><\/strong>.  I knew Michel fairly well, wrote his press bio for Blue Note many years ago, hung out with him and his lady at the Grammy Awards one year, and still enjoy listening to his recordings, including a trio album that was not mentioned along the path \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <strong>Power of Three<\/strong> features Michel, Jim Hall and Wayne Shorter live at   the 1986 Montreux Jazz Festival. If memory serves, it made it to #2 on Billboard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chart of Top Jazz Albums. The CD appears to be out of print (I saw some used ones at amazon.com), but the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towerrecords.com\/product.aspx?pfid=3185058\"target=\"_blank\">DVD <\/a><\/strong>is available at Tower, still my store of choice (if you do not know why, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=141\"target=\"_blank\">read this<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of Wayne Shorter, I really really need to make time to read <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=lushlifecom-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/158542353X?v=glance%26n=283155%26n=507846%26s=books%26v=glance\"target=\"_blank\">Footprints<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, the Shorter biography by Michelle Mercer. It got lots of rave reviews from critics as well as from friends of Wayne. <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=lushlifecom-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679442871?v=glance%26n=283155%26n=507846%26s=books%26v=glance\"target=\"_blank\">Deep In A Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by colleague James Gavin is also newly added to my reading pile as it was a birthday gift from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelstephans.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">drummer Michael Stephans<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Doug Ramsey a\/k\/a Rifftides, for introducing me (here) to An Overgrown Path . I may be late to the party, but no less appreciative of the fine sensibilities displayed there. I particularly enjoy the way many of the postings end: If you enjoyed this post take an overgrown path to ____ The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So much to read&#8230;so little time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz-ears","category-reading-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}