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If you love Classic Jazz or perhaps want to learn all you can about it, this is an excellent resource.
Blog Detail
Night Lights Classic Jazz
http://nightlights.blogs.wfiu.org/
Weekly one-hour classic jazz radio program and jazz blog hosted by David Brent Johnson, focusing on jazz from 1945-1990, covering artists such as John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Nina Simone.
- Added on: Jun 17th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: David Brent Johnson
- Listed in: Jazz
- Tags: miles davis jazz blog jazz radio classic jazz classic jazz radio classic jazz blog
Recent Posts
When Hoagy Met Johnny: the Carmichael-Mercer Connection on Afterglow
The songwriting collaborations of Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer--the hits and the lost and little-known songs as well, with recordings from Nat King Cole, Helen Forrest, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, and Hoagy and Johnny themselves....
Donald Byrd: the Hardbop Years
After 25-year-old trumpet great Clifford Brown died unexpectedly in a 1956 automobile accident, some critics and fans looked to a recent Manhattan arrival from Detroit as a possible successor: Donald Byrd. This week we'll celebrate the trumpeter's ...
Cold War Jazz From the Archives
Companion pieces for this week's "Jazz Impressions of Brubeck" program: a biographical and musical portrait of Voice of America jazz DJ Willis Conover, and an in-depth look at the U.S. State Department's sponsorship of international jazz tours durin...
Johnny Mercer at 100
Afterglow honors the centennial of one of America's greatest songwriters, with recordings of Johnny Mercer's songs by Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and others. Afterglow founding host and Mercer expert Dick Bishop joins the program t...
The Jazz Loft Project: Bringing a Hidden History to Life
The reclamation of an amazing 1950s/60s New York City jazz shrine, through photographs, interviews, and audio recordings of jazz greats and other artists at work and at play....
Jazz Impressions of Brubeck
In the 1950s and 60s the Dave Brubeck Quartet became one of the most popular jazz acts in the world--one of the reasons why the group ended up doing a State Department tour in 1958 at the height of the Cold War that took them to countries such as Ind...
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