There’s a new Pat Metheny CD that was just revealed last Friday - we have a couple of tracks to share, including a beautiful ballad with strings.

Vanessa Rubin will be in Pittsburgh for Kente Arts at the New Hazlett Theater, April 4 - we hear a super song from her - and also from Pittsburgh’s Richie Goods’s new CD - the globetrotting bassist will be joining Ms. Rubin in April.

Also - sounds from Chico Freeman - just announced as a headliner for June’s Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival.

We also chatted with vocalist and songwriter Mark Winkler at the Jazz Congress in New York in January - Mark Winkler has been a singer of songs for many years. He’s been a major champion of pianist, singer and songwriter Bobby Troup - and has been working with vocalist Cheryl Bentyne of the Manhattan Transfer, too.

The Pittsburgh jazz scene continues to be filled with many local combinations of entertainment and creativity - more than 235 during February - and spring will have even more!

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