{"id":8940,"date":"2017-12-29T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2017-12-29T19:18:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T03:18:13","slug":"roswell-rudd-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/12\/roswell-rudd-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Roswell Rudd, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Web_Roswell_Rudd-e1514597089486.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"172\" \/>Sorry to learn of the passing this week of trombonist Roswell Rudd (1935-2017). From his days in the 1950s as a Yale University student, Rudd showed flexibility, a penchant for harmonic subtlety, a big sound and an endearing rough humor. Through the years, he comfortably collaborated with musicians as stylistically varied as the traditionalists Wild Bill Davison, Bud Freeman and Eddie Condon, and modern adventurers like Archie Shepp, Lee Konitz, Albert Ayler and Charlie Haden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Liberation Music Orchestra. Rudd and the singer Sheila Jordan had a particularly fruitful musical relationship. For a comprehensive obituary, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/26\/obituaries\/roswell-rudd-82-trombonist-with-a-wide-open-approach-is-dead.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=obituaries&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=7&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giovanni Russonello\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article<\/a> in <em>The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/11\/recent-listening-in-brief-really-brief-part-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go here<\/a> for a brief <em>Rifftides<\/em> notice of one of Rudd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last albums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to learn of the passing this week of trombonist Roswell Rudd (1935-2017). From his days in the 1950s as a Yale University student, Rudd showed flexibility, a penchant for harmonic subtlety, a big sound and an endearing rough humor. Through the years, he comfortably collaborated with musicians as stylistically varied as the traditionalists Wild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8941,"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-8940","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\/8940","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=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}