{"id":5137,"date":"2012-08-31T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2012-08-31T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T16:03:16","slug":"the-first-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/the-first-black-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Black President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lester Young was the first jazz musician I really listened to \u2014 on an Aladdin 10&#8243; disc called &#8220;Battle of the Saxes,&#8221; will Illinois Jacquet on one side and Pres on the other.  I still have most of his solo on that version of &#8220;D.B. Blues&#8221; memorized.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a 1958 clip of a visibly frail Young playing &#8220;Mean To Me.&#8221;  Frail&#8230;but still strong.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9wvAjA-ovhs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And a group performance of &#8220;Jumpin&#8217; With Symphony Sid&#8221; that includes Pee Wee Russell and Coleman Hawkins:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0DmtPvFa_W8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester Young was the first jazz musician I really listened to \u2014 on an Aladdin 10&#8243; disc called &#8220;Battle of the Saxes,&#8221; will Illinois Jacquet on one side and Pres on the other. I still have most of his solo on that version of &#8220;D.B. Blues&#8221; memorized. Here&#8217;s a 1958 clip of a visibly frail [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}