{"id":2704,"date":"2011-06-13T16:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T23:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2011-06-13T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T23:39:27","slug":"stewart-plays-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/06\/stewart-plays-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Plays Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/06\/ray-bryant-1931-2011.html\"target=\"_blank\">death of Ray Bryant<\/a> keeps coming in. Dubliner Colm (Red) O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Sullivan writes from Rio de Janeiro, where he is immersing himself in Brazilian music. He alerts us to video of a fellow Irishman, guitarist Louis Stewart, playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Louis-Stewart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Louis-Stewart.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Louis Stewart\" width=\"130\" height=\"124\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2705\" \/><\/a>a Bryant composition. Stewart has been an important player in the UK for decades. He has occasionally appeared in the US. In <i>The New York Times<\/i> in 1981, John S. Wilson wrote, after hearing Stewart, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he spins out single-note lines that flow with an unhurried grace, colored by sudden bright, lively chorded phrases.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That has not changed. <\/p>\n<p>Here are Stewart and his frequent partner, pianist Jim Doherty, playing Ray Bryant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Bebop Irishman.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Following the tune, a BBCish announcer gives a bit of Stewart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bio.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDoKnre6CdU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Sorry for the early out. That&#8217;s all there was. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction to the death of Ray Bryant keeps coming in. Dubliner Colm (Red) O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Sullivan writes from Rio de Janeiro, where he is immersing himself in Brazilian music. He alerts us to video of a fellow Irishman, guitarist Louis Stewart, playing a Bryant composition. Stewart has been an important player in the UK for decades. He [&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-2704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","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=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}