{"id":586,"date":"2015-04-30T00:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2015-04-30T00:45:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:45:19","slug":"jim-alfredsons-dirty-fingers-live-on-wkar-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Jim Alfredson&#8217;s Dirty Fingers LIVE on WKAR-TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August of 2014 I had the distinct pleasure of headlining the Old Town Lansing Jazz Festival (now called the <a href=\"http:\/\/jazzlansing.com\/\">Lansing Jazz Festival<\/a>) with my band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.big-o-records.com\/zen-cart\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=1&amp;products_id=30\">Dirty Fingers<\/a>. I assembled an all-star cast including\u00a0Oakland University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oakland.edu\/?id=18496&amp;sid=532\">Sean Dobbins<\/a> on drums, guitarists Larry Barris and Ralph Tope, saxophonist Mark Kieme,\u00a0and\u00a0vibraphonist Jim Cooper. During the second part of the set some special guests joined the band onstage including\u00a0New York organist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briancharette.com\/\">Brian Charette<\/a>, the inimitable <a href=\"http:\/\/fareed.com\/\">Fareed Haque<\/a> on guitar, and Michigan State University Jazz Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldease.com\/\">Michael Dease<\/a> on trombone for a fun jam session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-588\" src=\"http:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR_2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"dirty finger WKAR_2\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR_2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR_2-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch both sets via the WKAR page.<\/p>\n<p>Part I &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/video.wkar.org\/video\/2365430304\/\">http:\/\/video.wkar.org\/video\/2365430304\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part II &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/video.wkar.org\/video\/2365430317\/\">http:\/\/video.wkar.org\/video\/2365430317\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-587 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"dirty finger WKAR\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dirty-finger-WKAR.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August of 2014 I had the distinct pleasure of headlining the Old Town Lansing Jazz Festival (now called the Lansing Jazz Festival) with my band Dirty Fingers. I assembled an all-star cast including\u00a0Oakland University&#8217;s Sean Dobbins on drums, guitarists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/?p=586\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VP1L-9s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimalfredson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}