{"id":5443,"date":"2014-02-01T12:40:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T20:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2015-11-10T20:26:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T04:26:57","slug":"weekend-extra-a-brownlow-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/02\/weekend-extra-a-brownlow-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: A Brownlow Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;gWSxGsAmdwUdZDgcOMMuABDId4fS8Ijw&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Despite a career that began in the 1940s, the Pacific Northwest pianist Jack Brownlow recorded only&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjazzscene.com\/jack-brownlow\/\"target=\"_blank\">two albums<\/a> under his own name. When he died in 2007 Bruno, as he was known to his friends, left a stockpile of tapes from rehearsals, casual encounters and record dates. It is unlikely that any of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Brownlow-Bronxville-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Brownlow-Bronxville-2.png\" alt=\"Brownlow, Bronxville 2\" width=\"212\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5446\" \/><\/a>them will ever emerge on commercially available albums, but by special arrangement with the Brownlow estate we can now and then play a piece or two on <em>Rifftides<\/em>. Here is an untitled blues that Bruno invented\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcomplete with his celebrated chord voicings\u00e2\u20ac\u201din Portland, Oregon, late one night in 1963. The bassist is Brownlow&#8217;s young protege Jim Anderson (1941-2004), who blossomed under Bruno&#8217;s tutelage.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/132562343&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For an obituary of Jack Brownlow, <a href=\"http:\/\/community.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/archive\/?date=20071101&amp;slug=brownlowobit01m\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. For further <em>Rifftides<\/em> posts about him, enter his name in the Search box above the right column.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;gWSxGsAmdwUdZDgcOMMuABDId4fS8Ijw&#8221;] Despite a career that began in the 1940s, the Pacific Northwest pianist Jack Brownlow recorded only&#8221;\u00a0two albums under his own name. When he died in 2007 Bruno, as he was known to his friends, left a stockpile of tapes from rehearsals, casual encounters and record dates. It is unlikely that any of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5444,"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-5443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","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=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}