{"id":2916,"date":"2011-09-08T00:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T07:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2011-09-10T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T21:41:41","slug":"jimmy-rowles-relocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/09\/jimmy-rowles-relocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Rowles Relocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Rowles is an idol of a broad range of musicians and listeners. For more than four decades, he was in demand by premier jazz artists and conductors of studio orchestras. He was a favorite pianist of Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Benny Carter, Barney Kessel, Gary Foster and Harry Edison, to name a few of those who cherished his touch, swing and harmonic genius. Rowles is gone, but his influence lives on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rowles-smiling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rowles-smiling.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rowles smiling\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rowles-smiling.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rowles-smiling-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rowles-smiling-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>in the work of Bill Charlap, Alan Broadbent, Jan Lundgren and Bill Mays, among scores of other pianists, and also because of recordings of his compositions; Wayne Shorter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adams-Apple-Wayne-Shorter\/dp\/B0000BV212?s=music&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1315457228&#038;sr=1-1?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153502 Blues,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> for example, and Stan Getz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Peacocks\/dp\/B002UHSB7K?s=music&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1315457365&#038;sr=1-1?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Peacocks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> (with Rowles on piano). He is also memorable for his nonpareil accompaniments of singers including Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Carol Sloane and&#151;early in Rowles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career&#151;Bing Crosby.  <\/p>\n<p>Rowles died 15 years ago in Southern California at the age of 77. Now, his son has taken his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ashes to where he feels his parents always wanted to return. Jim Kershner tells the story and a good deal of Rowles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history in Jimmy&#8217;s and Dorothy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hometown paper, the Spokane, Washington, <em>Spokesman Review<\/em>. To read it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2011\/sep\/05\/jimmy-rowles-home-last\/\"target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><p>Many musicians and listeners treasured Jimmy equally for his singing and his piano playing. He put the two talents together unlike anyone else. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good way to remember him.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6qx1SGcXhIs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Rowles was a master at recalling or unearthing wonderful half-forgotten songs. He sings several of them on his 1994 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lilac-Time-Jimmy-Rowles\/dp\/B000005WV6?s=music&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1315460472&#038;sr=1-1?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Lilac Time<\/em><\/a> album, which is itself becoming a rarity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Rowles is an idol of a broad range of musicians and listeners. For more than four decades, he was in demand by premier jazz artists and conductors of studio orchestras. He was a favorite pianist of Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Benny Carter, Barney Kessel, Gary Foster and Harry Edison, to name a [&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-2916","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\/2916","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=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}