{"id":2,"date":"2016-08-02T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T14:18:15","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to the Herb Pomeroy Collection preview site!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This website is a small sample of the rich content that lies within the <a href=\"\/pomeroy\/about\/\">Herb Pomeroy Jazz Collection<\/a>. Explore and enjoy this introduction,\u00a0as we work\u00a0towards providing rich online access to as much of the collection as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The collection is available for use in the <a href=\"\/distinctive-collections\/reading-room-policies\/\">Distinctive Collections Reading Room<\/a>.\u00a0It will be of interest to musicians, jazz historians, current students and faculty, and MIT alums.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Who is Herb Pomeroy?<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-350 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/09\/Herb-Serious-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pomeroy with trumpet\" width=\"202\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/09\/Herb-Serious-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/09\/Herb-Serious.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>Herb Pomeroy (1930-2007) is an influential figure in jazz who was a renowned trumpet player, bandleader, and educator. Duke Ellington once described him as \u201cone of America\u2019s jazz treasures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pomeroy was\u00a0known as an ambassador for jazz both in this country and throughout the world. Most of his teaching took place at the Berklee College of Music and MIT, where he inspired generations of students who still remember his positive influence on their lives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"buttons\"><a class=\"button-set button-primary button-primary--blue\" href=\"\/pomeroy\/biography\/\">Learn about Herb&#8217;s life and career<\/a><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>What&#8217;s in the collection?<\/h2>\n<p>The Herb Pomeroy Jazz Collection contains a wide variety of materials documenting Pomeroy\u2019s teaching and performing careers, including: scores, photographs, correspondence, teaching materials, professional memorabilia, news clippings, hundreds of\u00a0audio recordings, and a number of\u00a0videos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"buttons\"><a class=\"button-set button-primary--blue\" href=\"\/pomeroy\/listen\/\">Listen to Herb play<\/a><a class=\"button-set button-primary button-primary--blue\" href=\"\/pomeroy\/about\/\">Learn more about the collection<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"buttons\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Acknowledgement<\/h2>\n<p>We gratefully <a href=\"\/pomeroy\/about\/acknowledgements\">acknowledge<\/a> the generosity of the Pomeroy family and many other individuals in bringing this collection to MIT and making it accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Herb Pomeroy Collection preview site! This website is a small sample of the rich content that lies within the Herb Pomeroy Jazz Collection. Explore and enjoy this introduction,\u00a0as we work\u00a0towards providing rich online access to as much of the collection as possible. The collection is available for use in the Distinctive Collections Reading Room.\u00a0It will be of interest to musicians, jazz historians, current students and faculty, and MIT alums. Who is Herb Pomeroy? Herb Pomeroy (1930-2007) is an influential figure in jazz who was a renowned trumpet player, bandleader, and educator. Duke Ellington once described him as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-front.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":90,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/pomeroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}