{"id":9115,"date":"2011-09-06T05:13:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T09:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9115"},"modified":"2011-09-06T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T19:15:15","slug":"new-orleans-arranger-wardell-quezergue-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/new-orleans-arranger-wardell-quezergue-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Arranger Wardell Quezergue Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w1Lf_1y7rYE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Townsman BigSteve<\/strong> has passed along the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/music\/index.ssf\/2011\/09\/wardell_quezergue_legendary_ne.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans arranger <strong>Wardell Quezergue<\/strong> has died at 81<\/a>. Not being that knowledgeable about New Orleans music, I had never heard of Quezergue. I sure as hell grew up, however,\u00a0digging the syncopated arrangements\u00a0for songs like &#8220;Mr. Big Stuff&#8221; and &#8220;Groove Me,&#8221;\u00a0two smash songs (as I just read) that he arranged on the same day! In my high school and college years I was tormented by the chestnut &#8220;Iko, Iko,&#8221; \u00a0but that&#8217;s because I&#8217;d only suffered through hearing it played by the <strong>Grateful Dead<\/strong>. The Dixie Cups&#8217; version that Quezergue arranged is pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman BigSteve has passed along the news that New Orleans arranger Wardell Quezergue has died at 81. Not being that knowledgeable about New Orleans music, I had never heard of Quezergue. I sure as hell grew up, however,\u00a0digging the syncopated arrangements\u00a0for songs like &#8220;Mr. Big Stuff&#8221; and &#8220;Groove Me,&#8221;\u00a0two smash songs (as I just read) <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/new-orleans-arranger-wardell-quezergue-dead\/' 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":[342,16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115"}],"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=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}