{"id":2018,"date":"2010-04-03T14:50:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T21:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2010-04-03T14:50:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T21:50:44","slug":"john_bunch_1921-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/04\/john_bunch_1921-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bunch, 1921-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz this week lost John Bunch, a pianist whose imagination and adaptability kept him in demand for more than 60 years. Establishing his career in New York following his World<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/John%20Bunch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Bunch.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/John Bunch-thumb-120x157-14418.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"157\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a> War Two military service, Bunch slid smoothly from swing into bop and remained a reliable sideman and soloist who incorporated aspects of both eras in a personal approach of great flexibility. He was as comfortable and effective with Benny Goodman as he was with Wes Montgomery, or alone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSolo-Vol-1-John-Bunch%2Fdp%2FB0000031MH%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1270530258%26sr%3D1-6&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">This celebrated album<\/a> is a superb Bunch solo recital.  To read Nate Chinen&#8217;s obituary of Bunch in <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/02\/arts\/music\/02bunch.html?emc=eta1\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<br \/>\nBunch leads off a round of solos on &#8220;Sweet Georgia Brown&#8221; in this video of Scott Hamilton&#8217;s quartet. Chris Flory is on guitar, Phil Flanigan, bass and Chuck Riggs, drums.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/x20msx\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/x20msx\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s quite enough passings for a while, don&#8217;t you agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz this week lost John Bunch, a pianist whose imagination and adaptability kept him in demand for more than 60 years. Establishing his career in New York following his World War Two military service, Bunch slid smoothly from swing into bop and remained a reliable sideman and soloist who incorporated aspects of both eras in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2018","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\/2018","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=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}