{"id":28258,"date":"2014-06-27T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T06:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=28258"},"modified":"2014-06-27T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T06:50:28","slug":"blog-lay-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=28258","title":{"rendered":"Blog lay day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI have been doing the final edits on my euro-zone book all day today. The final stages are always a slog and I am ready to move on. But I have had some great music to keep me company. Read more if you want to swing a bit on a late Friday afternoon.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis birdland-inspired piece <strong>Get a Move On<\/strong> by DJ Mr Scruff, was recorded in 1999 on his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keep_It_Unreal\">Keep It Unreal<\/a> album. He has recently released a new version, which is just a heavily-sampled version of this better original release. Both swing though.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZDeadjBBz9k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But if you really want the inspiration for it, then you should know that the music is sampled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moondog\">Moondog<\/a>, a quirky performer from the 1960s. The song in question is <strong>Bird&#8217;s Lament (In Memory of Charlie Parker)<\/strong> from his 1969 album Moondog (I have still got the original record!).<\/p>\n<p>I hope you like this. I am currently re-learning tenor saxophone and it is fun <em>trying<\/em> to play phrases that the great Bird would reel out effortlessly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OvXROes0ar8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>And the vocals on Mr Scruff&#8217;s sampled track are from another fabulous musician, blues guitar legend <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T-Bone_Walker\">T-Bone Walker<\/a> and his song <strong>Hypin&#8217; Woman Blues<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is excellent too!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3IQpjduZNy4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Back to my editing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday Quiz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Saturday Quiz will be back again tomorrow. It will be of an appropriate order of difficulty (-:<\/p>\n<p>That is enough for today!<\/p>\n<p>(c) Copyright 2014 Bill Mitchell. All Rights Reserved.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been doing the final edits on my euro-zone book all day today. The final stages are always a slog and I am ready to move on. But I have had some great music to keep me company. Read more if you want to swing a bit on a late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}