Happy Birthday, Joe Negri - June 10!

This week, we celebrate Joe Negri, hear some music we’ve not shared before, and called him on his birthday, too!

Here’s a wonderful profile of Joe by Rich Kienzle from 10 years ago.

Music from the old Foster’s with Joe and trumpeter Danny Conn comes into play, too - and Joe talks about them as the “Gemini Twins.”

We also hear Joe featured on a 1991 recording with onetime Pittsburgh vocalist extraordinaire, Joyce Breach Read up more on Joyce from this 2011 profile from Huffpost. She’s been often seen in New York of late.

That project with Joyce Breach also featured area favorites, bassist Virgil Walters and drummer Reid Hoyson - causing us to revisit the new “Reid Hoyson Project” recording, Natural Gifts, which features music of Don DePaolis.

A celebration and appreciation of musical gifts on The Scene - Thursday at 6, Friday and Saturday at noon, Sunday afternoon at 5.