Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Series produced by WFIU
Enjoy these special editions of Night Lights -- a weekly jazz program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focusing on classic jazz from 1945-1990. Visit our online archives and the producer's jazz blog at: http://nightights.blogs.wfiu.org
Night Lights, WFIU's weekly jazz program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focuses on jazz from the 1945-1990 era - a timespan that, as Johnson notes, "weirdly parallels Miles Davis on record and the Cold War." Covering artists such as Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, and Nina Simone and themes ranging from jazz recordings of spirituals to avant-garde interpretations of the Great American Songbook, Night Lights also features many lesser-known talents of post-1945 jazz, such as saxophonist J.R. Monterose, trumpeter Freddie Webster, and piano/singer duo Dick and Kiz Harp.Host David Brent Johnson also maintains a widely read jazz blog and website which contains streaming archives of all past programs at: http://nightights.blogs.wfiu.org.Stations wishing to carry Night Lights as a weekly program... Show full description
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- Night Lights Program Clock (night-lights-program-clock.pdf)
48 Pieces
Bought by KVCR
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Jan 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 3
Bought by KMUW and KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Dec 05, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Oct 25, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 20
- Added: Feb 22, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WVAS, KLCC and more
- Added: Feb 22, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 7
Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 59:04
- Purchases: 2
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
Bought by Harford Community Radio and WDCB
- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 45:40
- Purchases: 2
Bought by WNMU-FM, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMOT, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
Bought by WJCT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTXK and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 6
Bought by WLRH, KRCU Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 12
Bought by KAAD-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMUW, WCPN, WRGY and more
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 11
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMUW and more
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 8