{"id":288603,"date":"2026-09-18T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288603\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:08:07","slug":"benny-benack-iii-in-the-mcg-jazz-spotlight-wzum-jazz-pittsburgh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288603\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny Benack III in the MCG Jazz Spotlight \u2014 WZUM Jazz Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Pittsburgh-born trumpeter, vocalist, and rising jazz star Benny Benack III&#8217;s career has taken him from the Steel City to concert halls and jazz clubs around the world, and this season he&#8217;ll return home as an MCG Jazz Season 40 Artist-In-Residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The playlist on this show with Marty Ashby is filled with coming highlights from Season 40 &#8211; including Rick Braun, Stella Cole, Gerald Albright, Kurt Elling with Yellowjackets, Jos\u00e9 James, Billy Childs and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Friday and Sunday night at 6, and 1pm, Saturday on WZUM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh-born trumpeter, vocalist, and rising jazz star Benny Benack III&#8217;s career has taken him from the Steel City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-288603","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\/288603","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=288603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}