{"id":283280,"date":"2026-09-10T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283280\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:28:14","slug":"mary-lou-willams-way-eric-roberson-in-residence-for-pijf-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283280\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Lou Willams Way &#8211; Eric Roberson in Residence for PIJF and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">September 11th is a day of remembrance in the United States &#8211; and also a day of note specifically in Pittsburgh for a jazz legend who grew up here and has her final resting place not far from the site of a special event Friday September 11 at 1pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">There will be an honorary street renaming ceremony at the corner of East Liberty Blvd and Larimer Avenue &#8211; Mary Lou Williams Way. WZUM will be on had for that &#8211; and we have some comments from her Neice Bobbie Ferguson on Mary Lou\u2019s Pittsburgh Connections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Also &#8211; we are a week away from the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival &#8211; including the two day free street festival along liberty avenue.  Highlights included Sean Jones, Orrin Evans, Lalah Hathaway Terri Lyne Carrington, Bernard \u201cPretty\u201d Purdie, a homecoming for drummer Jae Sinnett, Nathan Paul and the Admirables and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A performer and also artist in residence this year is songwriter, vocalist and producer Eric Roberson. He\u2019s had R&amp;B hits, taught at Berklee and helped shape an \u201cindependent\u201d approach for artists in the R&amp;B field. We talked with him, and also share a track of his with saxophonist Najee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Scene &#8211; Thursdays at 6pm, Friday at Saturdays at noon, Sundays at 5pm on WZUM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 11th is a day of remembrance in the United States &#8211; and also a day of note&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-283280","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\/283280","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=283280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}