{"id":19909,"date":"2022-07-07T23:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T04:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/?p=19909"},"modified":"2022-08-22T23:58:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T04:58:40","slug":"wbgo-smoke-jazz-club-reopens-after-its-pandemic-pause-bigger-and-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wbgo-smoke-jazz-club-reopens-after-its-pandemic-pause-bigger-and-better\/","title":{"rendered":"WBGO: Smoke Jazz Club reopens after its pandemic pause, bigger and better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time musicians played for an audience inside Smoke Jazz Club, on Broadway at 106th Street, it was mid-March of 2020. Kevin Hays was on piano, Ron Carter was on bass, and Al Foster was on drums. \u201cAt the time,\u201d says Smoke\u2019s founder, Paul Stache, \u201cit was clear that there was a pretty serious virus circling around the world. And looking at the band \u2014 Ron is in his 80s, Al is almost 80 \u2014 we were all sort of holding our breath. But we got through the weekend, and fortunately nobody got sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbgo.org\/music\/2022-06-06\/smoke-jazz-club-reopens-after-its-pandemic-pause-bigger-and-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time musicians played for an audience inside Smoke Jazz Club, on Broadway at 106th Street, it was mid-March of 2020. Kevin Hays was on piano, Ron Carter was on bass, and Al Foster was on drums. \u201cAt the time,\u201d says Smoke\u2019s founder, Paul Stache, \u201cit was clear that there was a pretty serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,54],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-14 22:14:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19912,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19909\/revisions\/19912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}