{"id":279332,"date":"2026-09-05T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279332\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:04:08","slug":"joe-williams-in-the-mcgjazz-spotlight-with-thomas-wendt-wzum-jazz-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279332\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Williams in the MCGJazz Spotlight with Thomas Wendt \u2014 WZUM Jazz Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Marty Ashby welcomes drummer and jazz historian Thomas Wendt for his monthly visit, this time celebrating the music of the great Joe Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Best remembered for his powerhouse years with Count Basie, Williams was much more than a big-band blues shouter. Marty and Thomas reach beyond Basie to explore his remarkable range\u2014from early recordings with the Andy Kirk and Red Saunders orchestras to swinging standards, deep blues and collaborations with Harry \u201cSweets\u201d Edison, Thad Jones, and Mel Lewis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">MCG Jazz Spotlight Show &#8211; Friday and Sunday night at 6, and 1pm, Saturday on WZUM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marty Ashby welcomes drummer and jazz historian Thomas Wendt for his monthly visit, this time celebrating the music&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-279332","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\/279332","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=279332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}