{"id":261279,"date":"2026-08-07T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261279\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:38:07","slug":"bassist-george-duvivier-in-the-mcgjazz-spotlight-with-thomas-wendt-wzum-jazz-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261279\/","title":{"rendered":"Bassist George Duvivier in the MCGJazz Spotlight with Thomas Wendt \u2014 WZUM Jazz Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Special Guest Thomas Wendt returns for a monthly visit &#8211; this time to explore the remarkable career of bassist George Duvivier\u2014one of jazz&#8217;s most recorded and respected sidemen. Though rarely in the spotlight himself, Duvivier&#8217;s impeccable time, rich tone, and musical versatility made him the first call for generations of bandleaders and soloists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The playlist follows George Duvivier&#8217;s remarkable journey through nearly every chapter of modern jazz. The swing era with Lucky Millinder; with pianists Mary Lou Williams, Sonny Clark and Herbie Nichols. Plus, musical adventure with Thad Jones, Gil Mell\u00e9, Eric Dolpy, Ron Carter and a stunning small group date with Sarah Vaughan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Join the conversation with host Marty Ashby as Thomas Wendt shines a light on one of jazz&#8217;s true unsung masters\u2014 bassist George Duvivier.<\/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":"Special Guest Thomas Wendt returns for a monthly visit &#8211; this time to explore the remarkable career of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-261279","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\/261279","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=261279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}