{"id":659,"date":"2010-02-01T23:05:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=659"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:05:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:05:47","slug":"thomas-quasthoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/thomas-quasthoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Quasthoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extraordinary <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.deutschegrammophon.com\/artist\/biography?ART_ID=QUATH\">Thomas Quasthoff<\/a>, singing improvisations on Miles Davis&#8217; <em>All Blues.<\/em>  One of the interesting things about this is that since he comes from a classical background (although he&#8217;s apparently loved and enjoyed jazz his whole life, which is pretty obvious from this performance), his handling of this piece has not a whiff of the &#8220;doing-a-standard-that&#8217;s-been-done-to-death-already&#8221; atmosphere which you sometimes find in the work of hipper-than-thou musicians who wouldn&#8217;t be caught dead singing something as hackneyed as, say, <em>All Blues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G_uTT8m5N1k&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G_uTT8m5N1k&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Or, for that matter, <em>My Funny Valentine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IjGIcKdq_JQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IjGIcKdq_JQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extraordinary Thomas Quasthoff, singing improvisations on Miles Davis&#8217; All Blues. One of the interesting things about this is that since he comes from a classical background (although he&#8217;s apparently loved and enjoyed jazz his whole life, which is pretty obvious from this performance), his handling of this piece has not a whiff of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9],"tags":[210,211],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz","category-music","tag-genius","tag-thomas-quasthoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}