We have an extended visit with Charles McPherson, stories about his early years in Detroit, his early mentorship by pianist Barry Harris, who lived just down the street and so much more.
Music and stories with Charles McPherson this week on The Scene. Thursday at 6pm, Friday and Saturday at noon, Sunday afternoon at 5pm on the Pittsburgh Jazz Channel.
Pittsburgh Jazz leader Dr. Nelson E. Harrison is our guest host for the MCG Jazz Spotlight Hour
Marty Ashby of MCG Jazz is joined by Dr. Nelson Harrison, a musician, composer and avid jazz historian. Nelson Harrison and Marty Ashby share some great music and great stories of jazz, especially from a Pittsburgh perspective.
Kate Borger will be presenting music made by women in jazz for the entire Women’s History Month of March. This week will feature music from Pittsburgh legends: Mary Lou Williams, Dakota Staton, Maxine Sullivan, and more!!
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Marty Ashby and composer/pianist Theron Brown talk about the upcoming concert March 2nd at MCG Jazz, leading to the Pittsburgh premiere of the jazz-inspired play Paradise Blue at City Theatre, plus the Detroit Pittsburgh Jazz Connection.
The MCG Jazz Spotlight Show - Friday and Sunday night at 6, Saturday afternoon at 1 on WZUM.
Reggie Watkins, the Humphries Brothers, Ahmad Jamal, Ray Crawford, Maxine Sullivan, and Chu Berry, Roy Eldridge and a Wheeling / Pittsburgh Jazz Connection, too.
As we near the end of February and Black History Month, the history of jazz in the Pittsburgh Region looms large as an important part of the history to know and learn from.
Reggie Watkins shares stories about Wheeling’s Chu Berry (who spent a lot of time with Pittsburgh’s Roy Eldridge). Also music from uncles of drumming great Roger Humphries - trumpeter Frank and saxophonist Hildred Humphries (who ALSO spent a lot of time with Roy Eldridge!)
And music from a Pittsburgh vocalist who had a huge hit with a Scottish tune in swing style in 1937 - Maxine Sullivan, and revolutionary sounds from the early 1950’s from pianist Ahmad Jamal.
Pittsburgh Jazz history and black music history - entwine in the rich tapestry of a music we call jazz.
Thursday night at 6, Friday and Saturday at noon, Sunday afternoon at 5 on WZUM.
Dr. Harry Clark, the founder and first Principal at Pittsburgh’s High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) is our special guest host for a program first first broadcast in February 2019.
Since then, Dr. Clark has received more accolades, including being cited as a Jazz Hero by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2019, and the BNY Mellon JazzLive Legacy Award for 2021. Among his musical picks for the show, Pittsburgh natives Erroll Garner and Ray Brown, plus sounds from the founder of the Jazz Studies program at Pitt, Dr. Nathan Davis.
The MCG Jazz Spotlight Show - Friday and Sunday night at 6, Saturday afternoon at 1 on WZUM.
WZUM's Jazz Central - for live Jazz events in the Pittsburgh Region. Send your information about live jazz in an email to info@wzum.org
