{"id":178,"date":"2005-10-27T08:46:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2005-10-27T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T15:46:38","slug":"ive-got-mail-greener-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Got Mail: Greener Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pliable from On An Overgrown Path<\/a> wrote to me last week, after I discovered his blog and commented here <\/a>on a post about Michel Petrucianni. <\/p>\n

Wow \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you actually knew Michel. I worked with Bernstein, Previn, von Karajan and others in my days in classical music (see this link for a photo<\/a> ) but I would have really valued hearing Michel Petrucciani live, yet alone meeting him. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To which I reply: Wow — Bernstein, Previn and von Karajan, I would love to have known them! Having had a privileged New York City childhood, I attended Bernstein’s Children’s Concerts and loved him from afar. My dad knows Previn, having recorded with him (A Different Kind of Blues<\/a> and It’s a Breeze<\/a>), but I have never met Previn nor von Karajan, let alone seen either perform in person. Wish that I had. The grass is always greener. <\/p>\n

Pliable tells me <\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to catch the Trio Hum \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Daniel Humair\/ Rene Urtreger and late lamented Pierre Michelot in Bergerac a few years back \u00e2\u20ac\u201c do you know the piano playing of Rene Urtreger? a very under-rated pianist I think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Daniel recorded with my dad [It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nice to Be With You: Jim Hall in Berlin<\/a> with Jimmy Woode (bass) and Daniel Humair (drums) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c recorded in Berlin, Germany, June 1969 for MPS], and Pierre (who I lamented here<\/a>) played with my ex at a Paris nightclub a few decades ago, so I knew them both, but I was not familiar with Urtreger. A little quick googling yielded a clip or two<\/a> and a newly purchased CD (Joue Bud Powell <\/a>) is on its way to me now. Pliable has good taste! If you haven’t visited On An Overgrown Path<\/a> yet, please do — you will not be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pliable from On An Overgrown Path wrote to me last week, after I discovered his blog and commented here on a post about Michel Petrucianni. Wow \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you actually knew Michel. I worked with Bernstein, Previn, von Karajan and others in my days in classical music (see this link for a photo ) but I … Continue reading “I’ve Got Mail: Greener Grass”<\/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":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discerning-ears","category-jazz-ears"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}