{"id":387,"date":"2009-02-02T16:25:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doublebassguide.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2009-02-02T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T14:25:41","slug":"leonard-gaskin-%e2%80%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Gaskin \u2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Gaskin died Saturday morning, January 24, 2009. <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.music.bluenote\/browse_thread\/thread\/de6834e9d339cb72\" target=\"_blank\">According to workers<\/a>\u00a0 at Ozanam Hall, the nursing home in Bayside, Queens where Mr. Gaskin had\u00a0 been living for the last several years, he did not experience any prolonged illness, but died of natural causes.<br \/>\nGaskin has worked with Dizzy Gillespie and other beboppers in the mid-1940ies. In the 1950ies, he became one of the favourite bassplayers of the neo-traditional-movement around Eddie Condon, Bud Freeman and Ruby Braff. In the 1960ies, he worked with Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins, Sonny Stitt and Brother Jack McDuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Gaskin died Saturday morning, January 24, 2009. According to workers\u00a0 at Ozanam Hall, the nursing home in Bayside, Queens where Mr. Gaskin had\u00a0 been living for the last several years, he did not experience any prolonged illness, but died of natural causes. Gaskin has worked with Dizzy Gillespie and other beboppers in the mid-1940ies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}