{"id":2264,"date":"2016-03-19T17:25:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T21:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2016-09-27T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:05:10","slug":"in-focus-jazz-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2016\/03\/19\/in-focus-jazz-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: Jazz Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a Sunday at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on the North Side. James Johnson Jr. is at the piano, joined by bassist Tony DePaolis, drummer Tom Wendt, saxophonist\/\u200bclarinetist Lou Schrieber and vocalist Betty Douglas. <\/p>\n<p>The group is performing during the monthly ecumenical jazz service.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating its 27th season, the Jazz Mass is held the second Sunday of every month at 5 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Each service has a thematic focus and the music is interspersed with messages. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to music \u2014 ranging from standards to bebop \u2014 there are occasional poetry and drama presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz and religion have had a long, storied association. They are the \u201ctwin mates of spiritual expression,\u201d the late Pittsburgh pianist Mary Lou Williams once said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a Sunday at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on the North Side. James Johnson Jr. is at the piano, joined by bassist Tony DePaolis, drummer Tom Wendt, saxophonist\/\u200bclarinetist Lou Schrieber and vocalist Betty Douglas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,187],"tags":[],"coauthors":[61],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/20160309ng-Vespers3-2.jpg?fit=1950%2C1383&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}