{"id":58,"date":"2012-04-28T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2019-04-12T21:16:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T04:16:20","slug":"james-reese-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"James Reese Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"black composer\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer-237x300.jpg 237w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer-118x150.jpg 118w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The year 1913 saw the first recordings by a keystone composer James Reese Europe, a black man.\u00a0 He was an elite composer, conductor, and organizer of Europe controlled several dance orchestras in New York during the 1910s and had become the president of the Clef Club, a union black musicians. \u00a0Europe&#8217;s recording contract with Victor Records came with his appointment as conductor for the sensational dance team Vernon and Irene Castle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-313 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg\" alt=\"dropout contact\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-1024x212.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-250x52.jpeg 250w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[bigContact form=on phones=on emails=on hours=on map=on]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-living-legends","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-4-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}