{"id":3717,"date":"2012-06-08T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T18:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2012-06-08T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T18:20:26","slug":"jack-brownlow-on-jazz-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/06\/jack-brownlow-on-jazz-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Brownlow On Jazz Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The latest post in Steve Cerra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jazz Profiles<\/em> concerns first-rate musicians who are well known only where they live. Sometimes, Steve points out, that is because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get a break. Sometimes, it is because they want to stay put. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every town has one,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he writes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Reno or Seattle. Somewhere in these cities, there is an exceptional Jazz musician who is mainly known only to those familiar with the local Jazz scene.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Cerra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case-in-point is the late pianist Jack Brownlow (pictured). Here is some of what he wrote:<\/p>\n

People who can play the music, flow with it. Their phrasing is in line with the tempo, the new melodies that they super-impose over the chord structures are interesting and inventive and they bring a sense of command and completion to the process of creating Jazz.<\/p>\n

These qualities help bring some Jazz musicians to national, if not, international prominence. Deservedly so. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not easy to play this stuff.<\/p>\n

We buy their recordings, read articles about them in the Jazz press and attend their concerts and club dates.<\/p>\n

But throughout the history of Jazz, be it in the form of what was referred to as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153territory bands,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or local legends who never made it to the big time or recorded, or those who only played Jazz as a hobby, word-of-mouth communication somehow managed to inform us of the startling brilliance of these locally-based musicians.<\/p>\n

Such was the case with pianist Jack Brownlow who for many years was one of the most highly regarded Jazz musicians in the greater-Seattle area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For Cerra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s account of the first time he heard Brownlow and to watch the video presentation he created to accompany one of the pianist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most lyrical recordings, visit Jazz Profiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you enter “Jack Brownlow” in the Rifftides<\/em> search box at the top of the page, you will find a number of posts about him or mentioning him. This one<\/a> has a story portraying the Bruno anyone who ever knew him will recognize. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest post in Steve Cerra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jazz Profiles concerns first-rate musicians who are well known only where they live. Sometimes, Steve points out, that is because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get a break. Sometimes, it is because they want to stay put. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every town has one,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he writes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Reno or Seattle. Somewhere in […]<\/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-3717","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\/3717","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=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}