{"id":1502,"date":"2008-06-21T04:39:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T08:39:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-24T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T10:17:02","slug":"duke-ellington-where-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/duke-ellington-where-to-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Ellington: Where to Begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-6ApogZRsag?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHow would one &#8211; me, specifically &#8211; go about investigating <strong>Duke Ellington<\/strong>? Although he&#8217;s constantly cited as one of the greats, I don&#8217;t know that I can identify a single recording by the man by tune alone. I have heard of certain tunes, his arranger, and a trusted musician or two &#8211; not to mention actually hearing some of his tunes (without really knowing who it was), but I have no clue what it is I&#8217;d be looking to check out. I ask because I&#8217;m watching my &#8220;making of&#8221; <em>The Band<\/em> doc (for the 100th time), and engineer <strong>John Simon<\/strong> compared The Band to Ellington and how he used the personalities of the musicians in his band as guides for his compositions. Assuming that it would be worth my effort, is there a collection that might be a best starting place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would one &#8211; me, specifically &#8211; go about investigating Duke Ellington? Although he&#8217;s constantly cited as one of the greats, I don&#8217;t know that I can identify a single recording by the man by tune alone. I have heard of certain tunes, his arranger, and a trusted musician or two &#8211; not to mention <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/duke-ellington-where-to-begin\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}