Friday night and Sunday night at 6 on WZUM, Marty Ashby, VP & Executive Producer of MCG Jazz and Renée J. Govanucci, Director, MCG Jazz, share the music of some of their biggest influences in jazz and in presenting jazz - with stories that go along with more than 30 years of MCG Jazz.
Included are great stories about the bass player and personal manager John Levy. One of the biggest influences in jazz whom you may never have known about!
This week on “The Scene,” Scott Hanley was going to do more about the second annual Jazz Congress at Jazz at Lincoln Center, but after further consideration, there’s so much going on in Pittsburgh, we needed to put some more spotlight on the Steel City angle.
Today at six, Sunday at 5, join Scott Hanley for the The Scene on WZUM
Friday night and Sunday night at 6 on WZUM, Marty Ashby, VP & Executive Producer of MCG Jazz is joined by saxophonist, educator, composer and arranger Mike Tomaro.
As a saxophonist and composer/arranger, Tomaro has a vast range of influences, We’ll hear sounds from Michael Brecker, Bill Evans (with Toots Thielemans), Wayne Shorter, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and more. Plus, one of Mike’s own charts with the Army Blues Jazz Ensemble.
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