Afterglow
Series produced by WFIU

Afterglow is a weekly, one-hour program of vocal jazz and popular song from the Great American Songbook, hosted by Mark Chilla.
Ella, Frank, Billie, Duke -- WFIU's Afterglow has them all. Afterglow highlights the best of vocal jazz and popular song from the 1930s to today. Each episode explores a new topic about the greatest jazz singers. Whether it's the unlikely friendship between Frank Sinatra and songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, the times trumpeter Clifford Brown worked with vocalists, or songs all about love, Afterglow tells the stories of the Great American Songbook. Afterglow first aired on WFIU sometime in the late 1970s, hosted by a man named Dick Bishop, who gave the show its elegance, passion, laid-back expertise, congenial charm, and that "martini-moon" quality. After Bishop's retirement in 2005, the show was hosted by David Brent Johnson. In February 2015, Mark Chilla took the helm, continuing to... Show full description
Additional Files
- Afterglow logo (AfterGlow_logo.jpg)
- Afterglow Generic Promo 1 (AfterglowGenericPromo1-untagged.mp2)
- Afterglow Generic Promo 2 (AfterglowGenericPromo2-untagged.mp2)
- Host Mark Chilla (headshot.jpg)
- Afterglow Program Clock (afterglow-program-clock.pdf)
- Afterglow Program Listings - JAN-APR 2021 (afterglow-program-listings-JAN-APR-2021.txt)
99 Pieces
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