This week on the MCG Jazz Spotlight, special guest Sherrie Maricle of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra joins Marty Ashby and Renée Govanucci to celebrate the life and music of Johnny Mandel.

The MCG Jazz Spotlight - Friday and Sunday nights at 6, Saturday afternoons at 1.

The Music of Johnny Mandel and a visit with Bob Alberti on the Hollywood Music Scene

We visit with pianist and arranger Bob Alberti and talk about the Hollywood music scene that he and Johnny Mandel made their careers in. In the process, we also play a lot of music of Johnny Mandel

Thursday at 6, Friday and Saturday at noon, Sunday at 5pm on WZUM

In the process, we also play a lot of music of Johnny Mandel

Marty Ashby and Renée Govanucci of MCG Jazz celebrate Freddy Cole. In his own words from an interview for the MCG Jazz Pittsburgh jazz documentary film, We Knew What We Had, Freddy Cole give his thoughts on Pittsburgh, and his friendships with Pittsburgh natives Billy Eckstine, Billy Strayhorn, Art Blakey and Ray Brown.

The MCG Jazz Spotlight - Friday and Sunday nights at 6, Saturday afternoons at 1.

This Independence Day weekend, we thought we’d take a visit with one of our favorite performers, vocalist, pianist and songwriter Karrin Allyson to delve into her most recent project, “Shoulder to Shoulder: Centennial Tribute to Women’s Suffrage.”

It’s the 100-year anniversary of the nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. We’ll hear music to commemorate it.

Marty Ashby and Renée Govanucci of MCG Jazz consider the Big Band and other very large ensembles.

From 17 different large group recordings, we go from the New York Voices and the Count Basie Orchestra, to the most recent release, “Diva and the Boys.” Other large slices on the menu include the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra, the Bob Mintzer Big Band, and a grammy winner with Nancy Wilson.

We go “large” in the MCG Jazz Spotlight on WZUM - Friday and Sunday nights at 6, Saturday afternoons at 1.

John Scofield's Musical Friends and a delay on that Thelonious Monk Palo Alto High School Recording from 1968

Pops’ Tunes - Musical Sons and their Fathers in the MCG Jazz Spotlight #MCGJazz #WZUM

This week on the MCG Jazz Spotlight Show, Marty Ashby and special guests pay tribute to their musical dads and all fathers for this Father’s Day weekend. Benny Benack III, James Johnson III, Eric DeFade, Anton DeFade, Don Aliquo, Jr., Lucas Ashby and Tony DePaolis play music with Dads in mind,

The MCG Jazz Spotlight show airs on Friday and Sunday at 6pm and Saturday at 1pm on The Pittsburgh Jazz Channel WZUM.

Jazz comes on stealthy fingers - Live Jazz is slowing making it’s comeback around Pittsburgh - we visit with John Shannon about Con Alma’s new strategy - and note some other re-openings, and the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival.

The tenth anniversary of the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival comes with an online-only event, Saturday June 20 from noon to 6 with an all-star lineup, through the world of the internet. Janis Burley Wilson of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center gives us some details.