{"id":361582,"date":"2026-10-01T05:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361582\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:54:43","slug":"jcal-kicks-off-thursday-night-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361582\/","title":{"rendered":"JCAL Kicks Off Thursday Night Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join\u00a0JCAL\u00a0for a fantastic show to kick off the Thursday Night Jazz season, headlined by The\u00a0Roy Hargrove Big Band!\u00a0As with everything Roy, his broad musical range is\u00a0evident\u00a0in his big band. Mr. Bruce\u00a0Williams, lead alto and big band member from 1997 until Mr. Hargrove\u2019s death in 2018,\u00a0leads the band on stage.\u00a0The repertoire currently consists of arrangements Roy himself played with the band, which\u00a0include audience favorites like Roy Allan, Public\u00a0Eye and September in the\u00a0Rain, other staples\u00a0of the show like Conservation (B. Watson) and Requiem (F. Lacy), as well as\u00a0well known\u00a0standards and some of his favorite compositions by his mentors John Hicks and Larry Willis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to\u00a0purchase\u00a0tickets, visit jcal.org\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jamaica Performing Arts Center is\u00a0located\u00a0at 153-10 Jamaica Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cYipPRxQ.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"923\" height=\"1146\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join\u00a0JCAL\u00a0for a fantastic show to kick off the Thursday Night Jazz season, headlined by The\u00a0Roy Hargrove Big Band!\u00a0As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-361582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}