{"id":17,"date":"2006-01-22T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-07T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T19:17:05","slug":"the-thrill-is-here-not-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"The Thrill is here, not overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=17\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">from the  <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/default.stm\">BBC<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My very first pro tour was a trip to Japan with jazz guitarist<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeritenour.com\/\"> Lee Ritenour.<\/a> We did a week at a jazz festival in the Japanese Alps branded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hansdulfer.nl\/photos\/fotosmadarao.htm\">Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbking.com\/\">BB King<\/a>, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and others. The next week was spent doing a double bill throughout Japan with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbking.com\/\">BB King<\/a>, sometimes sharing the same bus with him and his band. These are very fine memories for me. He used to tour as many as 300 shows a year; as he has gotten older, he&#8217;s finally cutting back a bit. He just announced today that he will no longer <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/4634944.stm\">tour overseas<\/a>. I&#8217;m glad I got the chance to do that with him.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/default.stm\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the BBC: My very first pro tour was a trip to Japan with jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour. We did a week at a jazz festival in the Japanese Alps branded the Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao with BB King, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and others. The next week was spent doing a double bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,10,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}