{"id":7535,"date":"2011-11-05T23:29:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T03:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2011-11-05T23:39:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T03:39:53","slug":"who-is-duke-ellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=7535","title":{"rendered":"Who is Duke Ellington?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210015_jazz_pre_concert.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[dukee]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7536\" title=\"210015_jazz_pre_concert\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210015_jazz_pre_concert.jpg?resize=535%2C357\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210015_jazz_pre_concert.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210015_jazz_pre_concert.jpg?resize=128%2C85&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210015_jazz_pre_concert.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210026_listening_2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[dukee]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7538\" title=\"210026_listening_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210026_listening_2.jpg?resize=128%2C85\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210026_listening_2.jpg?resize=128%2C85&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210026_listening_2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210026_listening_2.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210023_listening_1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[dukee]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7537\" title=\"210023_listening_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210023_listening_1.jpg?resize=128%2C85\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210023_listening_1.jpg?resize=128%2C85&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210023_listening_1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/210023_listening_1.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This question was answered today at <a href=\"http:\/\/jalc.org\/concerts\/details309a.asp?EventID=2640\" target=\"_blank\">Jazz at Lincoln Center&#8217;s Family Concert<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wynton_Marsalis\" target=\"_blank\">Wynton Marsalis<\/a> himself narrated the stories behind <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duke_ellington\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Ellington&#8217;s<\/a> life and music. The lineup included not only Wynton&#8217;s brilliant in-house orchestra, but also a few teenage jazz prodigies. Particularly 18-year old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunchronicle.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/21\/foxboro\/6827875.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Muirhead<\/a> from the Manhattan School of Music showed solo talent well beyond his years. Hear him &#8220;make his trumpet talk&#8221; in the clip below (there&#8217;s not much to <em>see<\/em> of him, since i shot the video from the hip &#8230; with the display off). In case you are wondering about Tobin fighting a sleep attack &#8211; he started the afternoon with a lot of interest and energy, but had to battle his early afternoon low point in the second half of the performance&#8230;<\/p>\n\r\n\t<!-- Begin Video.js -->\r\n\t<video id=\"example_video_id_1814182420\" class=\"video-js vjs-default-skin\" width=\"535\" height=\"300\" poster=\"http:\/\/www.minitosu.com\/videos\/2011_1105_Duke.jpg\" controls preload=\"auto\" data-setup='[]'>\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/www.minitosu.com\/videos\/2011_1105_Duke.m4v\" type='video\/mp4' \/>\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/www.minitosu.com\/videos\/2011_1105_Duke.webm\" type='video\/webm; codecs=\"vp8, vorbis\"' \/>\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/www.minitosu.com\/videos\/2011_1105_Duke.ogv\" type='video\/ogg; codecs=\"theora, vorbis\"' \/>\r\n\t<\/video>\r\n\t<!-- End Video.js -->\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question was answered today at Jazz at Lincoln Center&#8217;s Family Concert. Wynton Marsalis himself narrated the stories behind Duke Ellington&#8217;s life and music. The lineup included not only Wynton&#8217;s brilliant in-house orchestra, but also a few teenage jazz prodigies. Particularly 18-year old Matt Muirhead from the Manhattan School of Music showed solo talent well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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},"categories":[434,6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7542,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions\/7542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}