{"id":638056,"date":"2026-05-12T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:53:07","slug":"renowned-musician-will-always-have-a-place-in-atlantic-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638056\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned musician will always have a place in Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Atlantic City was the perfect place for me to grow up,&#8221; Harvey Mason said.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-Grammy nominated recording artist, session drummer, producer and composer was honored on the Boardwalk last week with Harvey Mason Way.<\/p>\n<p>The marker is at Kentucky Avenue, just blocks from the place Mason got his start at KY and the Curb, well-known for spots like Club Harlem.<\/p>\n<p>His career took him away and led him to work with some big names, including Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>The Class of 1965 Atlantic City High School graduate talked about how &#8220;there were so many clubs, so many people, so much to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He recalled playing sports on the beach, and even playing his drums.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all came from Atlantic City,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Atlantic City was the perfect place for me to grow up,&#8221; Harvey Mason said. The multi-Grammy nominated recording&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-638056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}