{"id":240446,"date":"2026-07-10T19:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240446\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:19:31","slug":"billy-eckstine-in-the-mcgjazz-spotlight-with-thomas-wendt-wzum-jazz-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240446\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Eckstine in the MCGJazz Spotlight with Thomas Wendt \u2014 WZUM Jazz Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Jazz historian and collector Thomas Wendt stops by for his monthly guest spot, celebrating the music of Billy Eckstine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">July 8 marks Eckstine\u2019s birthday, making it the perfect time to revisit the artistry of \u201cMr. B.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A Pittsburgh native, Billy&#8217;s rich baritone voice, elegance, and charisma made him one of the most influential vocalists in jazz and popular music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Thomas explores Eckstine\u2019s career from his early work with Earl &#8220;Fatha&#8221; Hines and his own groundbreaking orchestra to later collaborations with Count Basie and Quincy Jones. We\u2019ll also revisit his TIME magazine feature, the controversy surrounding photographs that challenged the racial norms of the day, and his later visits to MCG Jazz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Friday and Sunday night at 6, and 1pm, Saturday on WZUM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazz historian and collector Thomas Wendt stops by for his monthly guest spot, celebrating the music of Billy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-240446","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\/240446","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=240446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}