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Night Lights Classic Jazz
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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.
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Come On Down to Central Avenue: Jazz in Mid-20th Century L.A.
In this program we explore the sounds of the mid-20th-century Los Angeles jazz scene with historian Steve Isoardi. Jam sessions, bebop, r and b, big bands, visits from Hollywood celebrities--as the center of African-American culture in L.A., Central ...
The John Coltrane Songbook
John Coltrane revolutionized the sound of modern jazz and wrote a number of compositions that have become jazz standards. “The John Coltrane Songbook" celebrates the saxophonist’s birthday with performances of Coltrane pieces such as “Naima,â€...
Clark’s Last Leap: Sonny Clark, 1961-62
Sonny Clark was a hardbop piano master who appeared on a slew of classic late-1950s and early-1960s jazz recordings. Though Clark has garnered a cult following over the years, especially on the heels of saxophonist John Zorn’s late-1980s tribute to...
The Johnny Green Songbook, Part 2
Johnny Green may not have been the most prolific of composers, but some of the songs he wrote music for turned into significant standards, including "Body and Soul," "Out of Nowhere," and "I Wanna Be Loved." Although Green is best remembered for the...
The Connection: the Living Theater and Hardbop Jazz
The Connection was a groundbreaking 1959 off-Broadway play from New York City's Living Theater group, written by Jack Gelber, that cast jazz musicians as heroin addicts waiting for a score. Artists that passed through the play included pianist Freddi...
