MCG Jazz’s Marty Ashby reaches into the rich trove of interviews from the stage of MCGJazz - featuring highlights from a visit with trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and bandleader Chuck Mangione.
Music and memories with Chuck Mangione from the stage of MCG Jazz - and on the radio in the MCG Jazz Spotlight. The MCG Jazz Spotlight on WZUM - Friday and Sunday nights at 6, and Saturday afternoon at 1.
While celebrating Richie Cole’s life and career last Spring, we discovered some new places for records we have missed for many years - and now, they are found!
What’s most enjoyable (yet time consuming) about bringing vinyl records into the digital realm -unlike “ripping” a CD or uploading an audio file, you can only add the music one way - by playing the record. It was an immersive experience from which we are delighted to share the fruits of our labor.
Hear Eddie Jefferson, Bobby Enriquez, Richie Cole, George Auld, Woody Herman, Woody Shaw, Slide Hampton, Shirley Horn, Bruce Forman and more.
Thursday at 6, Friday and Saturday at noon, Sunday at 5pm on WZUM
This week on the MCG Jazz Spotlight Show, hosts Marty Ashby and Renee Govanucci play music from the top Jazz albums in the county according to JazzWeek.
Featured artists include Emmett Cohen, Dave Stryker, Veronica Swift, Jazz At Lincoln Center Septet, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and Chick Corea.
The MCG Jazz Spotlight show - Friday and Sunday at 6pm and Saturday at 1pm on The Pittsburgh Jazz Channel WZUM.
Drummer George Heid III is a noted percussionist, composer and the leader of a much admired weekly jam session in the times just before the lockdown.
During the lockdown, George came up with WISDOM PATH, a new project that remotely recorded a great number of musical notables from all over the world, including the U.S., Australia and France. He and percussionist Steve Shehan produced this new CD, joined the talents of vibraphonist Warren Wolf, steel pan master Victor Provos and keyboard and accordion notable Joe “Sonny” Barbato.
Thursday night at 6, Friday and Saturday at noon, Sunday afternoon at 5 on WZUM.
Saturday on WZUM, Scott Hanley shares a track by Stacey Kent - a lovely rendition of “I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket,” which got us to think about when that song first came out, 1936 in Follow the Fleet with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
But Fred also did a piano version, early in the film - on an upright that he lightly tunes and then plays….
Pittsburgh Jazz Piano Master Frank Cunimondo in the Spotlight
This week on the MCG Jazz Spotlight show, a broadcast of the Frank Cunimondo Trio’s live performance from September 30, 2020.
Plus, some previously unreleased music by Frank from 1958 - with rich vocal harmonies, too!
The MCG Jazz Spotlight show - Friday and Sunday at 6pm and Saturday at 1pm on The Pittsburgh Jazz Channel WZUM.
Marty Ashby pulls out a number of classic – and in some instances rare – vinyl recordings from the MCG Jazz archives for this week’s MCG Jazz Spotlight Show.
Peter Nero changed his name early in his career - hear a swinger from him as Bernie Nerow from 1957!
The MCG Jazz Spotlight show airs on Friday and Sunday at 6pm and Saturday at 1pm on The Pittsburgh Jazz Channel WZUM..
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