{"id":2490,"date":"2011-12-06T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2011-12-06T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:22:02","slug":"any-day-can-be-a-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/12\/06\/any-day-can-be-a-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Day Can Be A Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Putting together your holiday music playlist?\u00a0 Considering gifts of music?\u00a0 My pick is Bobby Timmons&#8217; <em>Holiday Soul, <\/em>on Prestige Records.\u00a0 This rerelease by Fantasy Records of the original 1965 recording includes Bobby Timmons on piano, Butch Warren on bass and Walter Perkins on drums.\u00a0 All the well known classics are improvised including <em>Deck the Halls<\/em>, <em>White Christmas<\/em> and my favorite <em>We Three Kings<\/em>.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t need to be a jazz enthusiast to appreciate the &#8220;glittering&#8221; and &#8220;stimulating&#8221; nature of the tunes.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t even have to enjoy the holidays.\u00a0 As Jack McKinney wrote in the original liner notes, &#8220;&#8230;this album is to be played in June as well as in January, for joy and jazz are not confined to the calendar.\u00a0 It is as cool and as warm as your own senses, and the effect is stimulating in any climate.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Records, Berkeley California, acquired the Prestige Records catalog\u00a0in 1971 and in 1983 established the subsidiary record label <em>Original Jazz Classics, <\/em>rereleasing for serious jazz enthusiasts a series of reproductions from Prestige.\u00a0 <em>Holiday Soul<\/em> is one of them.\u00a0 Review a <a title=\"Fantasy Collection\" href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/\/findaids\/charters\/ChartersArchive_IIIE.pdf\">listing <\/a>of Fantasy <em>Original Jazz Classics<\/em> recordings held in the Charters Archive of Vernacular African American Musical Culture.<\/p>\n<p>Kristin Eshelman, Curator of Multimedia Collections<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iaC9sUblrHw?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting together your holiday music playlist?\u00a0 Considering gifts of music?\u00a0 My pick is Bobby Timmons&#8217; Holiday Soul, on Prestige Records.\u00a0 This rerelease by Fantasy Records of the original 1965 recording includes Bobby Timmons on piano, Butch Warren on bass and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/12\/06\/any-day-can-be-a-holiday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-Ea","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}