{"id":283814,"date":"2026-09-11T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283814\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:46:12","slug":"mcg-jazz-legends-in-the-spotlight-with-marty-ashby-wzum-jazz-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283814\/","title":{"rendered":"MCG Jazz Legends in the Spotlight with Marty Ashby \u2014 WZUM Jazz Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Marty Ashby celebrates the 2026 Jazz Legends class with music, interviews, and visits that bring their stories to life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Meet this year\u2019s five honorees: vibraphonist Tubby Daniels; vocalist, songwriter, and community leader Tim Stevens; saxophonist and longtime educator Curtis Johnson; saxophonist, composer, and educator Eric DeFade; and vocalist and educator Pamela Johnson, co-founder of the Afro-American Music Institute. Together, they represent decades of music-making and dedication to Pittsburgh\u2019s next generation.<\/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 celebrates the 2026 Jazz Legends class with music, interviews, and visits that bring their stories to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-283814","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\/283814","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=283814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}