{"id":15047,"date":"2012-06-18T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2012-06-18T14:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:11:28","slug":"bill-cosby-says-goodbye-to-30-year-gig-as-playboy-jazz-festival-mc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15047","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby Says \u2018Goodbye\u2019 To 30-Year Gig As Playboy Jazz Festival Mc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funnyman, activist, and supreme jazz aficionado <strong>Bill Cosby<\/strong> is bidding farewell to his 30-year gig as the host of the world-renowned Playboy Jazz Festival.\u00a0 <strong>Cosby<\/strong> will take his leave after he emcees the event for the last time during the weekend of June 16 and 17 at the Los Angeles famed Hollywood Bowl venue.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of the festival, <strong>Hugh Hefner<\/strong> of the <em>Playboy Magazine<\/em> fame, hired <strong>Cosby<\/strong> back in 1979 to host the festivities, which has entertained an estimated 750,000 people to well more than 500 hours of jazz.\u00a0 <strong>Hefner<\/strong> refers to <strong>Cosby\u2019s<\/strong> contributions to the event as \u201cimmeasurable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cosby<\/strong> got the opportunity to premiere his own jazz group, <em>The Cos of Good Music<\/em>, at the event back in 1995.\u00a0 The jazz group, which switches members from year to year, features musicians that<strong> Cosby<\/strong> cherry picks himself.\u00a0 The veteran entertainer also gets to join the performers as a drummer or conductor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funnyman, activist, and supreme jazz aficionado Bill Cosby is bidding farewell to his 30-year gig as the host of the world-renowned Playboy Jazz Festival.\u00a0 Cosby will take his leave after he emcees the event for the last time during the weekend of June 16 and 17 at the Los Angeles famed Hollywood Bowl venue. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}