2024 is over - and as we look back at the year in Pittsburgh Jazz for 2024, it was pretty amazing - with historic recognition, musical reunions, new adventures and the return of the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival to downtown, to cite just a few.

One the program, we look at

• the revival of Ernest McCarty Jr’s Dinah Washington play by Mark Clayton Southers and Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater,

• the unveiling of historical marker honoring the home of jazz piano legend Earl “Fatha” Hines in Duquesne,

• the reunion of actor and pianist Jeff Goldblum with his onetime jazz piano teacher Frank Cunimondo,

• a celebration of Joe Negri’s 98th birthday,

• a farewell to pianist and force of nature Deanna Witkowski,

• and the honorary renaming of a street on Pittsburgh’s Northside to “Roger Humphries Way.”

That was just a part of the year!

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