{"id":288521,"date":"2026-09-17T23:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288521\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:44:08","slug":"pittsburgh-international-jazz-festival-and-mary-lou-willams-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288521\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival &#8211; and Mary Lou Willams Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It\u2019s the week of the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival! We share visits and music with and of PIJF notables &#8211; l Jae Sinnett, Sean Jones, Terri Lyne Carrington and Eric Roberson &#8211; and Orrin Evans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We also take a sonic look back at the the September 11th Honorary Street Renaming for Mary Lou Williams Way (the corner of East Liberty Blvd and Larimer Ave). We have comments from Mary Lou\u2019s niece, Bobbie Ferguson, her grand nephew Dr. Gerald Ferguson, Pittsburgh City Councilman Khari Mosely and State Senator Lindsey Williams. Also speaking at that event &#8211; scholar and musician Dr. Nelson Harrison, Samuel Black, Director of African American Programs at the Heinz History Center, Master of Ceremonies Jeannine Ferguson, radio host Bob Studebaker, and scholar and musician Adam Lee-Morgan. We hope to have a full video of the event up, shortly.<\/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":"It\u2019s the week of the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival! We share visits and music with and of PIJF&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-288521","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\/288521","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=288521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}