Reggie Watkins - Flies in From India, Lands on a Boat with Roger Humphries - the Scene on WZUM
The title of the show sounds like a setup to a joke - but it’s really how jazz flies and sails in Pittsburgh these days.
We catch up with Reggie Watkins about his just concluded jazz trip to India with fellow WVU grad Jared Sims - it’s a fascinating story about the power of jazz and community. Check out this article from Rolling Stone, India.
Then, after a 30 hour flight back from India, Reggie Watkins was a part of the little big band for Roger Humphries Jazz on the River Boat Ride last Sunday. Which then gets us to Roger and his Jazz Foundation of America Jazz Legacy Fellowship - which has him making new music and traveling all over - including to Cleveland at the Bop Stop, July 31st.
Click on the text above for details on each event - and go to the Jazz Central Calendar for the evolving lineup of jazz in the region.
We also have new music from the Reid Hoyson Project (Arts Landing, August 25), Emmet Cohen, the Ellington Masterworks Orchestra (from MCG Jazz), Harry Connick Jr (Heinz Hall, July 22), Bria Skonberg (August 30 at City Winery) and Hendrik Meurkens (partially mixed in Pittsburgh)
The Scene - Thursday at 6pm, Friday and Saturday at noon, Sunday afternoon at 5.
Jared Sims and Reggie Watkins with the Swing City Band - Photo Credit Pranav Bhatia - Rolling Stone India