{"id":234102,"date":"2026-07-02T20:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234102\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:43:06","slug":"reggie-watkins-flies-in-from-india-lands-on-a-boat-with-roger-humphries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234102\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggie Watkins &#8211; Flies in From India, Lands on a Boat with Roger Humphries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Reggie Watkins &#8211; Flies in From India, Lands on a Boat with Roger Humphries &#8211; the Scene on WZUM<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The title of the show sounds like a setup to a joke &#8211; but it\u2019s really how jazz flies and sails in Pittsburgh these days.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We catch up with Reggie Watkins about his just concluded jazz trip to India with fellow WVU grad Jared Sims &#8211; it\u2019s a fascinating story about the power of jazz and community. <a href=\"https:\/\/rollingstoneindia.com\/swing-city-jazz-concert-hyderabad-review\/amp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Check out this article from Rolling Stone, India.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/jazzfoundation.org\/jazz-legacies-fellowship-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jazz Foundation of America Jazz Legacy Fellowship<\/a> &#8211; which has him making new music and traveling all over &#8211; including to Cleveland<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themusicsettlement.org\/events\/2026\/07\/31\/indestructible-featuring-roger-humphries-bop-stop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> at the Bop Stop, July 31st.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Click on the text above for details on each event &#8211; and go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/w7r4.engage.squarespace-mail.com\/r?m=6a3c90d6457e9636ece4a52e&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wzum.org%2Fjazz-central%3Fss_source%3Dsscampaigns%26ss_campaign_id%3D6a3c8ec3330c2b59056e8cdb%26ss_email_id%3D6a3c90d6457e9636ece4a52e%26ss_campaign_name%3DPittsburgh%252C%2BSummer%2BJazz%2Band%2BJoe%2BNegri%26ss_campaign_sent_date%3D2026-06-25T02%253A22%253A36Z&amp;w=582a50a19de4bb863458cc07&amp;c=b_6a3c8ec3330c2b59056e8cdb&amp;l=en-US&amp;s=G8bPweKxOq1-TUIiHbyAl14k4l0%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jazz Central Calendar <\/a>for the evolving lineup of jazz in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We also have new music from the Reid Hoyson Project (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wzum.org\/jazzcentral-jazz-events-from-wzum\/2026\/08\/25\/u741mrrtf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arts Landing, August 25<\/a>), Emmet Cohen, the Ellington Masterworks Orchestra (<a href=\"https:\/\/prod3.agileticketing.net\/websales\/pages\/catalogproductinfo.aspx?catinfo=6410~78f0c928-a599-4914-9d7c-5082dddf9ec0&amp;epguid=37653799-d086-4dd5-89f2-a465cc7a3264\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from MCG Jazz<\/a>), Harry Connick Jr (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wzum.org\/jazzcentral-jazz-events-from-wzum\/2026\/7\/22\/harry-connick-jr-heinz-hall-downtown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heinz Hall, July 22<\/a>), Bria Skonberg (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wzum.org\/jazzcentral-jazz-events-from-wzum\/2024\/08\/30\/-city-winery-downing-s5ews-tpejw-shz22-pazmz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 30 at City Winery<\/a>) and Hendrik Meurkens (partially mixed in Pittsburgh)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Scene &#8211;  Thursday at 6pm, Friday and Saturday at noon, Sunday afternoon at 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reggie Watkins &#8211; Flies in From India, Lands on a Boat with Roger Humphries &#8211; the Scene on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-234102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}