{"id":8609,"date":"2017-08-25T13:18:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2017-08-25T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:18:16","slug":"just-because-clark-terry-and-bob-brookmeyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/08\/just-because-clark-terry-and-bob-brookmeyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Because: Clark Terry And Bob Brookmeyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/C.-Terry-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/C.-Terry-headshot.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/C.-Terry-headshot-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer co-led one of the great small bands of the last half of the twentieth century. In the group Terry (1920-2015) concentrated on the flugelhorn, which he played\u00e2\u20ac\u201das he did the trumpet\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith fluency, feeling, technique and humor that make him to this day a model and inspiration for brass players. Brookmeyer (1929-2011) had equal<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Broomeyer-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"200\" \/> eminence as a valve trombonist, beginning as he rose to prominence in the early 1950s with Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Jimmy Giuffre, among others.<\/p>\n<p>In a departure from its standard practice, in the 1960s the British Broadcasting Corporation flew Terry and Brookmeyer from New York to London for an appearance on the popular BBC program <em>Jazz 625,<\/em> hosted by Humphey Lyttleton. The rhythm section of eminent British jazzmen was Laurie Holloway, piano; Rick Laird, bass; and Allan Ganley, drums.<\/p>\n<p>As for departures, let&#8217;s depart from the standard <em>Rifftides<\/em> practice of presenting relatively short video clips.&#8221;\u00a0 We&#8217;ll go long. Here is a half-hour segment of Terry and Brookmeyer.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ez5f063JHMw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We hope that launches you into the weekend in a pleasant frame of mind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer co-led one of the great small bands of the last half of the twentieth century. In the group Terry (1920-2015) concentrated on the flugelhorn, which he played\u00e2\u20ac\u201das he did the trumpet\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith fluency, feeling, technique and humor that make him to this day a model and inspiration for brass players. Brookmeyer [&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-8609","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\/8609","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=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}