{"id":1126,"date":"2007-11-01T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2007-11-01T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T19:39:43","slug":"brunos_obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/11\/brunos_obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno&#8217;s Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <em>Seattle Times<\/em> has a substantial obituary of Jack Brownlow. It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jack Brownlow learned to play the piano by ear at age 12. By his late teens, he was an accomplished professional. Although he never sought a national stage, he made a stir here as a musician&#8217;s musician, a quiet pianist known best for his harmonic sophistication and his encyclopedic knowledge of songs.<br \/>\nWhen he first heard Mr. Brownlow play, Paul Desmond, the alto saxophonist and lead soloist in the Dave Brubeck Quartet, reportedly remarked: &#8220;If I played piano, that&#8217;s how I&#8217;d want to play it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the whole thing,<a href=\"http:\/\/archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/cgi-bin\/texis.cgi\/web\/vortex\/display?slug=brownlowobit01m&#038;date=20071101&#038;query=Jack+Brownlow\"target=\"_blank\"> go here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Rifftides<\/em> will resume normal operation eventually. This executorship business is going to be full time for at least a few days. I hope to find time for a report on Luciana Souza&#8217;s perfomance at Jazz Alley. Please check in now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Seattle Times has a substantial obituary of Jack Brownlow. It begins: Jack Brownlow learned to play the piano by ear at age 12. By his late teens, he was an accomplished professional. Although he never sought a national stage, he made a stir here as a musician&#8217;s musician, a quiet pianist known best for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}