{"id":9694,"date":"2018-06-25T19:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T02:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9694"},"modified":"2018-06-25T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T04:24:39","slug":"monday-recommendation-the-story-of-a-keyboard-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/06\/monday-recommendation-the-story-of-a-keyboard-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: The Story Of A Keyboard Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2tv8G73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milt Buckner<\/a><\/strong>: The Life and Music of a Unique Jazz Pianist and Organist<\/em> (Woodward)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/41ojsBl3gcL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/41ojsBl3gcL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/41ojsBl3gcL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>Willard \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Woody\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Woodward writes a straightforward account of the career of the keyboard artist who pioneered the Hammond B3 organ in jazz. Milt Buckner paved the way for later organ heroes including Jimmy Smith, Don Patterson and\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore recently\u00e2\u20ac\u201dJoey DeFrancesco. His legacy encompasses the parallel-chords or locked-hands technique that Buckner developed as a pianist and transferred to his organ playing. Woodward, a pianist and organist inspired by Buckner, is thorough as he traces Buckner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s development, including his breakthrough in the early 1940s with Lionel Hampton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s band. In addition to his solid story telling, Woodward discusses details of Buckner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s settings of the pullout stops that determine the B3\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s variety of sounds. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fascinating stuff, not too technical for most readers. If you are unfamiliar with Buckner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work (it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1S4HPYDDGKE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go here<\/a> for a demonstration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milt Buckner: The Life and Music of a Unique Jazz Pianist and Organist (Woodward) Willard \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Woody\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Woodward writes a straightforward account of the career of the keyboard artist who pioneered the Hammond B3 organ in jazz. Milt Buckner paved the way for later organ heroes including Jimmy Smith, Don Patterson and\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore recently\u00e2\u20ac\u201dJoey DeFrancesco. His legacy [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694","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=9694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}