{"id":7253,"date":"2016-01-17T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7253"},"modified":"2016-01-17T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T20:37:07","slug":"weekend-extra-barry-altschul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/01\/weekend-extra-barry-altschul\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Barry Altschul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Barry-Altschub-ca.-64-2.jpg\" alt=\"Barry Altschub ca. '64\" width=\"199\" height=\"254\" \/>Eleven days into his 74th year, Barry Altschul is not resting on his laurels\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor anything else. The drummer made his first big impression with Paul Bley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trio in 1964 and went on to work with a cross-section of the most adventurous musicians in jazz. In the early \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc70s he, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Anthony Braxton comprised the group called Circle. Sidemen in his own bands have included Anthony Davis, Ray Anderson and Mark Helias. Altschul has played with mainstream artists\u00e2\u20ac\u201dHampton Hawes, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Owens and Paul Winter among them\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut he is best known for his intuition, reflexive responses and adventuring on the forward edge of the music. Here he is in 2013 with bassist Helias in tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trio at the Kaleidophon in Ulrichsberg, Austria.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UcyBu5Vp9D4?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Barry Altschul, born January 6, 1943. Going strong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven days into his 74th year, Barry Altschul is not resting on his laurels\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor anything else. The drummer made his first big impression with Paul Bley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trio in 1964 and went on to work with a cross-section of the most adventurous musicians in jazz. In the early \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc70s he, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Anthony [&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-7253","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\/7253","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=7253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}