{"id":8414,"date":"2017-06-02T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T05:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2017-06-02T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T06:09:12","slug":"bud-shank-just-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/06\/bud-shank-just-because\/","title":{"rendered":"Bud Shank, Just Because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bud-Shank-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bud-Shank-headshot.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bud-Shank-headshot-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6because you feel like hearing Shank play something you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never heard him do. You look around on the internet and see what you can find. There he is in Sao Paulo in 2004 at the Chivas Jazz Festival with Bill Mays, piano; Bob Magnusson, bass; and Joe LaBarbera, drums. They play \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nature Boy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UuxFQQROME\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You decide that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not enough Shank. You look again and the subtitles in the clip strongly indicate that he&#8217;s not in The United States. The <em>YouTube<\/em> contributor doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t disclose the year or the exact location, but it seems to be at a festival. Shank is collaborating with fellow alto saxophonists James Moody, Lee Konitz and Richie Cole. They play Charlie Parker&#8217;s &#8220;Confirmation.&#8221; Bud introduces the rhythm section.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_3wzpdpjiY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Bud+Shank+Lee+Konitz+James+Moody%2C+Richie+Cole+Bobby+McFerrin\">this <em>YouTube<\/em> page<\/a>, you will find several other videos from the same occasion, with plenty of soloing by all hands but, for some reason, little from Konitz, and an entertaining lot from the guest artist, singer Bobby McFerrin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6because you feel like hearing Shank play something you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never heard him do. You look around on the internet and see what you can find. There he is in Sao Paulo in 2004 at the Chivas Jazz Festival with Bill Mays, piano; Bob Magnusson, bass; and Joe LaBarbera, drums. They play \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nature Boy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d You decide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8415,"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-8414","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\/8414","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=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}