Afterglow Jazz and American Popular Song
This week on Afterglow: songs and stories from some of America's most popular songs are featured, as well as a tribute set to the late singer Dakota Staton.
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Vocalist Ron Gill's veteran authority, pianist-singer Champian Fulton's youthful pose, and more.
Bop songstress, girlfriend of comedian Lennie Bruce, and 1/3 of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Annie Ross was the 1950s' epitome of jazz-vocal hip.
Frank Loesser wrote or co-wrote some of the most memorable music of mid-20th-century American popular song.
New, not necessarily blue: Afterglow's latest survey of recent releases.
Stan Getz's final bow, and Bing Crosby's treasure-trove of previously-unreleased small-group recordings of standards.
A centennial tribute to bandleader Artie Shaw highlighting the records he made with vocalists, including Helen Forrest, Billie Holiday, and Mel Torme.
Gordon Jenkins was renowned as an arranger, but he also wrote some hit songs. We'll hear them done by Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday and more.
Singer Anita Gravine pays tribute to music of the Italian cinema, plus music from the final studio dates of saxophonist Gerry Mulligan.
Pianist Luke Gillespie's unexpected CD, a new love-songs compilation from Jackie Ryan, and a solo outing from Kurt Elling collaborator Laurence Hobgood.
Afterglow bursts into early-April bloom this week with odes to the spring both happy and sad from Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller and more.
David Brent Johnson hosts the weekly WFIU historical jazz program Night Lights and Afterglow as well. Learn more »
Charlie Parker was only 34 when he died in 1955, but he'd already changed the sound of jazz forever. Fans and fellow musicians were determined to celebrate him.
Night Lights is WFIU's weekly program of classic jazz hosted by David Brent Johnson.
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