{"id":584,"date":"2009-12-24T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2009-12-24T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:20:55","slug":"celebrating-bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating BB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Brookmeyer has been in the news a lot of late. It shouldn’t take an 80th birthday to precipitate this avalanche of applause — his artistry and tremendous output throughout the decades should be cause enough — but such is the nature of arts coverage in America so I am thrilled that he has garnered a spotlight.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Doug Ramsey’s Rifftides<\/em> for reminding me<\/strong><\/a> and for posting a video<\/strong><\/a> I had not seen, AND for pointing me to Spirit Music: Bob Brookmeyer at 80<\/strong><\/a>, an appreciation that includes a brief account of the Eastman celebration on Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society blog plus several delectable downloadable audio clips and other links.<\/p>\n

\"\"My personal memories of Bob go back a ways. “Trombone and guitar duets? Your kidding, right?” So said the little kid that I was in the 1960s when dad said he and Bob Brookmeyer were going to play a duo gig at Hopper’s, a now long-defunct restaurant\/jazz club just a couple of blocks away from our apartment. Filial love aside, I was mesmerized and have been an ardent follower of all-things-BB ever since. By my teen years I was addicted to his arrangements for the Thad Jones\/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.<\/p>\n

\"\" In 1999 a recording of Brookmeyer & Hall 1979 duo performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival was released on CD and I got to write the liner notes<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n

And here are just a few more BB links worth noting:<\/p>\n

  • Jazz Trombonist Bob Brookmeyer on His Career, Influences, and Outlook on Music<\/a><\/strong> at ArtistHouse Music.<\/li>\n

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  • Bob Brookmeyer<\/strong><\/a> at Trombone Page of the World.<\/li>\n

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  • Bob Brookmeyer to blow out some candles (with his trombone)<\/strong><\/a> at Jazz @ Rochester blog.<\/li>\n

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  • Bob Brookmeyer and Some of His Friends<\/strong><\/a> on Night Lights (a weekly one-hour radio program of classic jazz hosted by David Brent Johnson and produced by WFIU Public Radio). <\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Bob Brookmeyer has been in the news a lot of late. It shouldn’t take an 80th birthday to precipitate this avalanche of applause — his artistry and tremendous output throughout the decades should be cause enough — but such is the nature of arts coverage in America so I am thrilled that he has garnered … Continue reading “Celebrating BB”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz-ears","category-this-n-that"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}