{"id":2136,"date":"2010-09-29T07:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T11:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2012-03-26T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T22:05:24","slug":"best-crosstown-commute-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/best-crosstown-commute-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"BEST CROSSTOWN COMMUTE EVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Stan Ebin, a Dixieland trumpeter<\/strong><\/span> and radio DJ, played these tunes on WKHR-FM:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Hora Staccato.&#8221;\u00a0 Rafael Mendez, trumpet.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t Dave Tarras record this same tune? \u00a0[Yes.] \u00a0(Listener&#8217;s GPS location: I-90 at Lakewood\/McKinley Ave.)<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8220;Blues in C# Minor.&#8221; Roy Eldridge, trumpet. \u00a0(I-90 at West 117th Street by White Castle.)<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8220;Lena from Palestina.&#8221;\u00a0 Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band from Cincinnati. \u00a0This tune, like &#8220;Hora Staccato,&#8221; is part of the klezmer repertoire.\u00a0\u00a0 (There are three &#8220;C&#8221; Innerbelt exits in a row: Central, Carnegie and Chester avenues.)<\/p>\n<p>4. &#8220;Bless this House.&#8221; \u00a0Four-part barbershop harmony, all on trumpet, overdubs by Roger Blackburn.\u00a0 (Carnegie Avenue at East 55th Street, by the old Warner &amp; Swasey factory, where machinists made machine tools with machine tools.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>5.&#8221;Basin Street Blues.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> Louis Prima, trumpet and vocals; Pee Wee Russell, clarinet.\u00a0 (Carnegie Avenue by the Cleveland Clinic banner &#8220;One of America&#8217;s Top 4 Hospitals.&#8221;\u00a0 What are the other three? \u00a0Mayo Clinic, New York-Presbyterian and Johns Hopkins? \u00a0No.\u00a0 Add Mass General, delete New York-Presbyterian.)<\/p>\n<p>6. &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Get Started.&#8221;\u00a0 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet.\u00a0 Ebin, the DJ, says, &#8220;Dizzy is stealing from Bunny Berigan.&#8221;\u00a0 (Stokes Boulevard by the Baldwin Water Works Plant.)<\/p>\n<p>7. &#8220;Wah-Hoo.&#8221;\u00a0 Hoosier Hot Shots.\u00a0 Spike Jones before there was Spike Jones. 1935. \u00a0[At the former Cleveland Heights pothole (now repaved) vortex: North Park at North Woodland.]<\/p>\n<p>Two klezmer tunes, plus interesting old jazz, in a 30-minute drive from the West Side. On regular radio.\u00a0 Amazing.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">2 of 2 posts for 9\/29\/10.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Yiddishe Cup plays tonight (Wed. Sept. 29) 7 p.m., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairmounttemple.org\">Fairmount Temple<\/a>, and tomorrow (Thurs. Sept. 30) 7:15 p.m., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parksyn.org\">Park Synagogue<\/a>, for Simchat Torah.\u00a0 Cleveland.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Ebin, a Dixieland trumpeter and radio DJ, played these tunes on WKHR-FM: 1. &#8220;Hora Staccato.&#8221;\u00a0 Rafael Mendez, trumpet.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t Dave Tarras record this same tune? \u00a0[Yes.] \u00a0(Listener&#8217;s GPS location: I-90 at Lakewood\/McKinley Ave.) 2. &#8220;Blues in C# Minor.&#8221; Roy Eldridge, trumpet. \u00a0(I-90 at West 117th Street by White Castle.) 3. &#8220;Lena from Palestina.&#8221;\u00a0 Buffalo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}