{"id":251528,"date":"2026-07-24T23:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251528\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:33:17","slug":"benny-benack-iii-in-the-mcg-jazz-spotlight-wzum-jazz-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251528\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny Benack III in the MCG Jazz Spotlight \u2014 WZUM Jazz Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Pittsburgh-born trumpeter, vocalist, and rising jazz star Benny Benack III&#8217;s career has taken him from the Steel City to concert halls and jazz clubs around the world, and this season he&#8217;ll return home as an MCG Jazz Season 40 Artist-In-Residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The playlist on this show with Marty Ashby traces both Benny&#8217;s artistry and the musicians who helped shape his musical voice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Explore the music, mentors, and influences behind one of jazz&#8217;s most exciting young voices\u2014and get a preview of the artistry Benny Benack III will bring to MCG Jazz&#8217;s milestone 40th season.<\/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":"Pittsburgh-born trumpeter, vocalist, and rising jazz star Benny Benack III&#8217;s career has taken him from the Steel City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-251528","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\/251528","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=251528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}