{"id":263,"date":"2020-02-12T19:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2020-02-12T19:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:46:21","slug":"video-and-thoughts-on-april-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Video and Thoughts on &#8220;April In Paris&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/391046648\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As I work at my winter rehearsals, I&#8217;m pouring through the &#8220;Real Book&#8221;. Trying to match singers to the songs. I hit on &#8220;April in Paris&#8221;. The Veron Duke \/ Yip Harburg tune from the movie &#8220;Walk A Little Faster&#8221; with Doris Day 1932.\u00a0 I loved Ella&#8217;s and Mel Torme&#8217;s takes on this tune.<br \/>\nBeing a Singer first, and a Pianist second,\u00a0 it takes me quite a while to begin to feel comfortable with most jazz charts. It also forces you to sing on auto pilot: as your brain is racing 100mph in the background trying to figure out how you want to play the next change and then then next phrase.<\/p>\n<p>Jane and I love Paris. I&#8217;ve only spent a week there, and it was magic. I wrote a tune called C&#8217;est laVie . I recorded it alone in my demo studio and added a great Trumpet player for the video version. It is all pictures of that week in Paris with some of my fav. art.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/195407337\" width=\"640\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff As I work at my winter rehearsals, I&#8217;m pouring through the &#8220;Real Book&#8221;. Trying to match singers to the songs. I hit on &#8220;April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ctolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}