{"id":3512,"date":"2012-04-05T00:31:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T07:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2012-04-04T23:34:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T06:34:36","slug":"missing-gene-lees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/04\/missing-gene-lees\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Gene Lees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gene-Lees-by-Reeves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gene-Lees-by-Reeves.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gene Lees by Reeves\" width=\"100\" height=\"124\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3513\" \/><\/a>Gene Lees died two years ago this month, on April 22. That day I wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We lost a writer unsurpassed at illuminating music and the world that musicians inhabit. I lost a cherished colleague whose work inspired me, a dear friend whose companionship brightened my existence.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>The Portland, Oregon, broadcaster, poet and visual essayist Lynn Darroch was another of Gene\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friends and admirers, although, he said in a message, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a smooth ride.&#8221; There were no smooth rides with Gene. There were lots of rewarding ones. With Lynn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s permission, here is the video remembrance he posted this week. Piano is by Tom Grant, audio mixing and mastering by Jonathan Swanson.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxzYUA48rOY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>For more of Lynn Darroch&#8217;s work, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/darrochstories?feature=watch\"target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>. To read my musings on that sad day in 2010&#151;and the outpouring of comments from <em>Rifftides<\/em> readers&#151;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/04\/gene_lees_1928-2010.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Lees died two years ago this month, on April 22. That day I wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We lost a writer unsurpassed at illuminating music and the world that musicians inhabit. I lost a cherished colleague whose work inspired me, a dear friend whose companionship brightened my existence.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Portland, Oregon, broadcaster, poet and visual essayist Lynn [&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-3512","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\/3512","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=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}