{"id":856,"date":"2007-03-04T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=856"},"modified":"2007-03-04T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T09:04:00","slug":"followup_willis_benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/03\/followup_willis_benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Followup: Willis Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from New York are that the benefit for pianist Larry Willis last week at St. Peter&#8217;s Church raised more than $5,000. That won&#8217;t build Willis a new house, but it will help him replace some of what he lost in a January fire. More than two dozen pianists, including some of the most prominent in jazz, played for Willis. One of them, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deannawitkowski.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Deanna Witkowski<\/a>, sent her impression of the event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I thought that the evening was beautiful, and there really was a lot of love in the room! The concert lasted for about three and a half hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another of the pianists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenoreraphael.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Lenore Raphael<\/a>, wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was warm and thrilling to be part of such a benefit and tribute. We played on a 9 foot Fazioli dream of a piano and everyone got as much out of it as one could get from such a great instrument. I wish you could have been there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Willis himself played at the benefit, a duet with trumpeter Jimmy Owens. Total attendance through the evening was about 250. For a recommended CD by Larry Willis, see <strong>Doug&#8217;s Picks <\/strong>in the right-hand column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from New York are that the benefit for pianist Larry Willis last week at St. Peter&#8217;s Church raised more than $5,000. That won&#8217;t build Willis a new house, but it will help him replace some of what he lost in a January fire. More than two dozen pianists, including some of the most prominent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}