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Afterglow is a weekly one-hour radio program of jazz and American popular song hosted by David Brent Johnson and produced by WFIU Public Radio. Afterglow airs Friday at 10 p.m. on WFIU HD1.

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This Week on Afterglow

October 26, 2009

A Dark and Lonely Night: Haunted Love Songs For Halloween

By David Brent Johnson

Afterglow features a different take on haunted music for Halloween, with evening laments and anguished odes to lost and longed-for love from Julie London, Kay Starr, Duke Ellington, Cassandra Wilson and more.

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October 23, 2009

Andy Bey: a 70th Birthday Tribute

By David Brent Johnson

Jazz singer and pianist Andy Bey is enjoying a late period of renewed appreciation in a long and sometimes-submerged career. Afterglow pays tribute to him with a musical overview that includes recordings he made with both his popular 1960s family act and his 1970s work with Horace Silver, as well as his recent American popular-song CDs.

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October 16, 2009

The Piano Player Sings: Oscar Peterson

By David Brent Johnson

Oscar Peterson was one of jazz’s most popular pianists, but on a couple of occasions he did albums on which he SANG as well.

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October 8, 2009

The Hank Williams Songbook

By David Brent Johnson

Hank Williams may be the king of country music, but pop, jazz and R & B performers have seized upon a number of his songs over the past few decades.

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October 3, 2009

What’s New: October 2009

By David Brent Johnson

New music from singers Roberta Gambarini, Kurt Elling and Jackie Ryan, trumpeter Roy Hargrove, and the Dutch Jazz Orchestra’s tribute to Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan.

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September 24, 2009

Songs of the Season: Autumn

By David Brent Johnson

The fall 2009 edition of our annual tribute to the autumn includes music from Jackie Paris, Kenny Dorham, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone and Duke Ellington.

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