{"id":4259,"date":"2012-11-27T17:33:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T01:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2012-12-01T21:46:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T05:46:02","slug":"ron-crotty-still-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/11\/ron-crotty-still-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Crotty, Still Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Ron-Crotty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Ron-Crotty.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ron Crotty\" width=\"120\" height=\"108\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4260\" \/><\/a>Nearly four years ago, <em>Rifftides<\/em> reminded you of the bassist Ron Crotty, whose brief season of renown came in the early 1950s. Andrew Gilbert, a free lance writer and critic in the San Francisco Bay area, sought out Crotty recently and published an update in <em>The Monthly<\/em>, an East Bay magazine. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an early paragraph from Andy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crotty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s autumnal creative resurgence would be heartening in any context, reminding us that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never too late to make a mark, but his lion-in-winter renaissance feels particularly inspiring given his precocious rise and numerous stumbles. In 1949, before turning 20, he had already seized a piece of musical immortality as a founding member of the Dave Brubeck Trio, a group that also featured drummer Cal Tjader. (Tjader, who died on the road in 1982, earned fame several years after leaving Brubeck as a vibraphonist and pioneering Latin jazz bandleader).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of the piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonthly.com\/upfront1212.html\"target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the April, 2009, <em>Rifftides<\/em> post on Crotty and associates, with video of a performance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/04\/what_ever_happened_to_ron_crot.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly four years ago, Rifftides reminded you of the bassist Ron Crotty, whose brief season of renown came in the early 1950s. Andrew Gilbert, a free lance writer and critic in the San Francisco Bay area, sought out Crotty recently and published an update in The Monthly, an East Bay magazine. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an early paragraph [&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-4259","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\/4259","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=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}