{"id":3579,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/thad-jones-mel-lewis-big-band-opening-night\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"thad-jones-mel-lewis-big-band-opening-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"Thad Jones \/ Mel Lewis Big Band &#8211; Opening Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><b><font size=\"4\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Thad Jones &#8211; Mel Lewis Big Band<br \/><\/font><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\">Opening Night<br \/><\/font><\/b><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">(BMG &#8211; 2002)<br \/> by  Ricky Miller<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  Containing over 71 minutes of never-released music, this CD takes you back to the famed <i>Village Vanguard<\/i>. The date was Feb 7th, 1966 and the night was electric. Featuring the likes of <b>Pepper Adams, Joe Farrell, Bob Brookemeyer, Hank Jones and Eddie Daniels<\/b> this performance gave a new meaning to the name &#8216;swinging big band&#8217;. I particularly liked &#8216;Once Around&#8217; and &#8216;The Little Pixie, both longer (over 12:00) tracks because they reflect the atmosphere of music performances in that day, giving the music time to put you under it&#8217;s spell. <\/p>\n<p>  &#8216;Lover Man&#8217; also features some unique styling on the horns&#8230; not quite Billy Holiday but again very indicative of the style of the period. Overall this CD is enjoyable both as a period piece and for it&#8217;s performance value. This is the performance that launched the <i>Thad Jones \/ Mel Lewis<\/i> big band into the limelight and on the road to a long and illustrious career.    <\/font>            <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thad Jones &#8211; Mel Lewis Big BandOpening Night(BMG &#8211; 2002)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","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=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}