just revealed new lighting installation to highlight the architectural features of the center<\/a>.<\/p>\nHighlights for the festival included Samara Joy onstage Friday night; the Orrin Evans set of Thelonious Monk music, featuring drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and bassist Robert Hurst; Jae Sinnett\u2019s \u201cBlurred Lines Project\u201d: A stunning Sean Jones set; Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science; Lalah Hathaway; Nate Smith and much more.<\/p>\n
Friday night, while Roger Humphries was featured at the August Wilson Center (with Sean Jones sitting in!), Reggie Watkins was leading the \u201cIndestructible\u201d Sextet at Con Alma – music inspired by Art Blakey and driven by Roger Humphries – but this time featuring Philadelphians Jacob Hurlock – piano and Leon Jordan, Sr – drums (they came in on the Jazz Train with Orrin Evans).<\/p>\n
There was a notable set of Thelonious Monk (and related) music by an all-star trio led by pianist Orrin Evans with Robert Hurst (bass) and Terri Lyne Carrington (drums) that had the audience rapt while having to pull up umbrellas a bit toward the end.<\/p>\n
A new sound from Sean Jones with Presence was a rich mixture of sounds, adding in the Hammond Organ to his palette of musical colors.<\/p>\n
Terri Lyne Carrington\u2019s band Social Science has a new release out, and she was there to represent,<\/p>\n
Vocalists Lalah Hathaway, Lady Blackbird and more. Plus, an occasional outpouring of rain that showed the dedication of fans with a sea of umbrellas and other raingear on Sunday.<\/p>\n
A busy jazz scene in the weeks ahead – <\/p>\n
Saturday September 26 – Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra and a celebration of new Jazz Legends inducted by MCG Jazz;<\/p>\n
October 3rd – two shows with the Count Basie Orchestra with Nnenna Freelon at MCG Jazz<\/p>\n
October 3rd – Kente Arts presents Corcoran Holt with Jeff Tain Watts at the New Hazlett Theater.<\/p>\n
October 6th – Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Heinz Hall.<\/p>\n
October 17th – Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Byham<\/p>\n
October 17th – Pianist Rossano Sportiello and his all stars for Jazz at the Stifel in Wheeling <\/p>\n
October 17th – BPEP Jazz at the Heinz History Center<\/p>\n
The Scene – Thursdays at 6pm, Friday at Saturdays at noon, Sundays at 5pm on WZUM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We reflect back on the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival. It could have had a slogan from James Brown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-293473","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\/293473","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=293473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}