{"id":13297,"date":"2013-08-12T04:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13297"},"modified":"2013-08-12T04:17:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:17:47","slug":"long-beach-jazz-festival-a-standing-ovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/long-beach-jazz-festival-a-standing-ovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Jazz Festival, A Standing Ovation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/lbjazco.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos of friends gathering at Long Beach Jazz Festival center: bass virtuoso Stanley Clarke &amp; Al Williams, drummer\/music promoter; and scintillating saxtress of smooth jazz Jeanette Harris<\/p>\n<p>When Four-time Grammy Award Winner Stanley Clarke took to the stage yesterday on the final day of the Long Beach Jazz Festival, a sea of fashionably dressed fans raised their hands and said, &#8220;oh yeah,&#8221; as the living legend \u00a0mentioned his collaborations with Chick Corea &#8211; Return to Forever, and George Duke, who recently passed away. Clarke paid tribute to his former music partner (who died a week ago) with one of the most popular and best-known songs recorded under the Clarke\/Duke Project &#8212; <em><strong>Sweet Baby<\/strong><\/em>. The 1981 Sony release written by George Duke made the Top 20 list and remains a timeless classic, much like the Long Beach Jazz Festival.\u00a0Be sure to catch the standing ovation when the exciting jazz festival returns with new surprises in 2014! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-jazz-festival.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos of friends gathering at Long Beach Jazz Festival center: bass virtuoso Stanley Clarke &amp; Al Williams, drummer\/music promoter; and scintillating saxtress of smooth jazz Jeanette Harris When Four-time Grammy Award Winner Stanley Clarke took to the stage yesterday on the final day of the Long Beach Jazz Festival, a sea of fashionably dressed fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}