{"id":11506,"date":"2020-08-10T13:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=11506"},"modified":"2020-08-10T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:54:14","slug":"bebop-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=11506","title":{"rendered":"Bebop Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wfaradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bebop-Book-Stack-Transp.png\" alt=\"\" height=\"245\" style=\"margin-top:-20px;\"><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cMark Ruffin\u2019s Bebop Fairy Tales captures the heart and soul of the American experience during the 20th century with humor, wit and accuracy, just like the solos of the jazz musicians he uses as his artistic muse. It\u2019s the best kind of history: poetic, noetic and hip.\u201d<br><font size=\"1\">\u2013 Ben Sidran, Musician, Broadcaster, Author of <i>&#8220;The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma&#8221;<\/i>.<\/font><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cThe world needs Mark Ruffin\u2019s Bebop Fairy Tales now more than ever. When he writes, <i>The rhythm of the game allows her to interact with her husband without disturbing his enjoyment<\/i>, I thought he was channeling me and how I learned to love baseball from Dexter Gordon. Baseball, Bebop, the drama of life, all together here. Yes, Bebop is the music of the future and these fairy tales teach us the truth.\u201d<br><font size=\"1\">\u2013 Maxine Gordon, Author of <i>&#8220;Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon&#8221;<\/i><\/font><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WNT96pzi41I\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 14px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 14px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);box-shadow: 0px 0px 14px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bebop.markruffin.com\/comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMark Ruffin\u2019s Bebop Fairy Tales captures the heart and soul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11507,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}