{"id":7465,"date":"2016-04-12T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T07:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7465"},"modified":"2016-04-12T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:45:55","slug":"remembering-bryce-rohde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/04\/remembering-bryce-rohde\/","title":{"rendered":"A Farewell To Bryce Rohde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Bryce-Rohde.jpg\" alt=\"Bryce Rohde\" width=\"216\" height=\"187\" \/>In January, <em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Donna Shore sent a remembrance of Bryce Rohde, the pianist and music director of the Australian Jazz Quartet. Outside of Australia the talented musician&#8217;s achievements received too little notice when he died in January. Updated slightly, here is Ms. Shore&#8217;s tribute, with video of Rohde&#8217;s trio performing the piece that she mentions. The video&#8217;s opening includes a biographical sketch. The low-level hum at the beginning quickly disappears.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My dear old friend Bryce Rohde passed away early this year at age 93. A genius, a proponent of George Russell&#8217;s Lydian Concept of Tonal Organization, he had been my friend since the early 60s. I will miss his sweet and kindred spirit and his brilliant piano dexterity and composition.<\/p>\n<p>His composition &#8220;Windows of Arquez,&#8221; has a lot of meaning to our old Sausalito contingent, Donlan Arquez was the overseer to the entire property landscape of Gate 5, hence the title.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ohqnb76y4j4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">RIP: Bryce Rohde. I will miss my dear old friend, he enriched my life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, Rifftides reader Donna Shore sent a remembrance of Bryce Rohde, the pianist and music director of the Australian Jazz Quartet. Outside of Australia the talented musician&#8217;s achievements received too little notice when he died in January. Updated slightly, here is Ms. Shore&#8217;s tribute, with video of Rohde&#8217;s trio performing the piece that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7466,"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-7465","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\/7465","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=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}