{"id":3357,"date":"2010-01-17T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T22:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2015-11-12T09:16:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:16:29","slug":"woody-herman-orchestra-at-cpaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"Woody Herman Orchestra At CPAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz clarinetist-saxophonist Woody Herman revolutionized Swing music with a repertoire that embraced a wide spectrum of genres, including Blues, Bop, and Rock.\u00a0 The Big Band leader won Grammys for <em>Thundering Herd, Giant Steps,<\/em> and the album <em>Encore: Woody Herman, 1963. <\/em> The Woody Herman Orchestra continues the legendary vitality and versatility, mixing classics from the past with new songs that suit the band\u2019s exuberant, hard-swinging style. <strong>Woodrow Charles Herman<\/strong> (May 16, 1913 \u2013 October 29, 1987), better known as <strong>Woody Herman<\/strong>, was an <a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">American<\/a> <a title=\"Jazz\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jazz\">jazz<\/a> <a title=\"Clarinetist\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarinetist\">clarinetist<\/a>, alto and soprano <a title=\"Saxophonist\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saxophonist\">saxophonist<\/a>, <a title=\"Singer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Singer\">singer<\/a>, and <a title=\"Big band\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_band\">big band<\/a> <a title=\"Band leader\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Band_leader\">leader<\/a>. Leading various groups called &#8220;The Herd,&#8221; Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and &#8217;40s bandleaders. His bands basically played jazz and blues, often verging into rather experimental material for the eras in which the bands were playing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woodyhermann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3360\" title=\"woodyhermann\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woodyhermann-450x439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woodyhermann-450x439.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woodyhermann-150x146.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woodyhermann-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woodyhermann.jpg 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woody_herman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3369\" title=\"woody_herman\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woody_herman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woody_herman.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woody_herman-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/01\/woody_herman-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz clarinetist-saxophonist Woody Herman revolutionized Swing music with a repertoire that embraced a wide spectrum of genres, including Blues, Bop, and Rock.\u00a0 The Big Band leader won Grammys for Thundering Herd, Giant Steps, and the album Encore: Woody Herman, 1963. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=3357\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater","tag-CCPA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20365,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/20365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}