{"id":5510,"date":"2014-02-25T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T07:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2014-02-25T23:13:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T07:13:26","slug":"jack-berry-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/02\/jack-berry-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Berry RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/120x149xJackP20Berry-thumb-150x179-12238.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.sAYpEXnCmu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5511\" alt=\"120x149xJack,P20Berry-thumb-120x149-12238.jpg.pagespeed.ic.sAYpEXnCmu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/120x149xJackP20Berry-thumb-120x149-12238.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.sAYpEXnCmu.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>Today as the Portland Jazz Festival was at its midpoint came the call I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been dreading. Jack Berry is dead. Since we were in the early stages of our careers during my Portland years in the 1960s, Jack and I have been friends whose closeness was never affected by distance. As I batted around the country from news job to news job, our friendship was not allowed to dim. He was a perceptive writer on jazz and any other subject he chose to approach, and over the years he has been quoted many times in <em>Rifftides<\/em>. He was a historian, a producer, a guitarist, a champion raconteur. He knew with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Jack-Berry1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Jack-Berry1.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Berry\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5513\" \/><\/a> amazing thoroughness about literature, film and music. He was the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading expert on Jim Pepper and leaves his biography of the saxophonist uncompleted, a regrettable loss. The emphysema that had dogged Jack for years finally completed its terrible work. For an appreciation of a rare human being, <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonmusicnews.com\/2014\/02\/25\/jack-berry-reporter-jazz-journalist-tv-producer-omn-family-member-dead-77\/\" target=\"_blank\">see Tom D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Antoni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s piece<\/a> in <em>Oregon Music News<\/em>. To find Jack in <em>Rifftides<\/em>, enter his name in the search bar at the top of the right column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today as the Portland Jazz Festival was at its midpoint came the call I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been dreading. Jack Berry is dead. Since we were in the early stages of our careers during my Portland years in the 1960s, Jack and I have been friends whose closeness was never affected by distance. As I batted around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5512,"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-5510","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\/5510","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=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}