{"id":269871,"date":"2026-08-22T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269871\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:00:23","slug":"reid-hoyson-in-the-mcg-jazz-spotlight-wzum-jazz-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269871\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid Hoyson in the MCG Jazz Spotlight \u2014 WZUM Jazz Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Marty Ashby welcomes Pittsburgh drummer and bandleader Reid Hoyson for a wide-ranging conversation about his life in music, his recordings, and a career that has put him behind the drums with an impressive and sometimes surprising collection of musicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Reid has spent decades as part of the jazz scene as both a sideman and a leader, developing a musical voice rooted firmly in the jazz tradition while remaining open to the many directions that tradition can travel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Along the way, Reid shares stories about collaborations with some formidable jazz artists, including bassist Rufus Reid, pianist Billy Test (Pennsylvania-born, currently with the WDR Big Band in Cologne, Germany), and harmonica virtuoso Hendrik Meurkens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It\u2019s an hour of great records, stories from a life in jazz, unexpected musical connections, and a conversation with one of Pittsburgh\u2019s veteran drummers and bandleaders, Reid Hoyson, this week on The MCG Jazz Spotlight Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marty Ashby welcomes Pittsburgh drummer and bandleader Reid Hoyson for a wide-ranging conversation about his life in music,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-269871","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\/269871","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=269871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}