I learned yesterday of the passing of my mentor and friend, Paul McKee. He was an amazing musician, an excellent trombonist and composer\/arranger. He was also one of the best teachers I’ve had the pleasure of studying from and was an all-around great guy. He will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is an interview<\/a> Paul gave me back when I was a student. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I learned yesterday of the passing of my mentor and friend, Paul McKee. He was an amazing musician, an excellent trombonist and composer\/arranger. He was also one of the best teachers I’ve had the pleasure of studying from and was an all-around great guy. He will be sorely missed. Here is an interview Paul gave … Continue reading R.I.P. Paul McKee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1360,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative","category-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-2Ff","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10249,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions\/10249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}