{"id":1130,"date":"2007-10-27T22:55:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T05:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2007-10-27T22:55:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T05:55:43","slug":"jack_brownlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/10\/jack_brownlow\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Brownlow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rifftides<\/em> will be in suspension for a while. I don&#8217;t know for how long. Two years ago, I wrote this about a great pianist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldjazzscene.com\/brownlow.html\"target=\"_blank\">Jack Brownlow<\/a>, at 81, has doggedly refused to let a round of health problems put him out of commission. He is gigging less, but a stream of colleagues comes to his house to play music with him and learn from him. He is an inspiration to them, as he has been to me since I was sixteen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This evening, the health problems won. I&#8217;ve lost my best friend, a wise teacher, the older brother I never had, a musician who from the time I was a child moved me with the profound beauty of his playing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bruno.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Bruno.jpg\" width=\"94\" height=\"125\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Jack Brownlow<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen Paul Desmond heard Jack for the first time, he said, &#8220;If I played piano, that&#8217;s how I&#8217;d  want to play it.&#8221;<br \/>\nThere is a lot to sort out. I&#8217;ll check back in as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides will be in suspension for a while. I don&#8217;t know for how long. Two years ago, I wrote this about a great pianist: Jack Brownlow, at 81, has doggedly refused to let a round of health problems put him out of commission. He is gigging less, but a stream of colleagues comes to his [&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-1130","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\/1130","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=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}