Afterglow Jazz and American Popular Song
Afterglow takes a popular-song journey across the 1960s and 70s American pop landscape through the work of two songwriters.
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Exploring Aretha Franklin's roots this week on Afterglow.
Paul Simon has written some of the past 50 years’ most memorable hits, such as “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and The Sound of Silence."
Some well-known songs by a little-known lyricist, sung by Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, and others.
New and recent releases from Sophie Milman, Seth MacFarlane, Houston Person, Freddie Cole, and Charlie Haden and Hank Jones.
Turn on your radio, relax, and float downstream this week on Afterglow.
A milestone salute to the singer and lyricist, featuring his recordings as a member of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross and as a leader.
Afterglow checks in this week with one of our periodic round-ups of new and recent releases, featuring CDs from Madeleine Peyroux, Pat Metheny and others.
Singer Nina Simone took songs of the counterculture and made them her own.
We pay tribute to the arrival of warm weather with music from Nat King Cole, June Christy, Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, George Benson and more.
David Brent Johnson hosts the weekly WFIU historical jazz program Night Lights and Afterglow as well. Learn more »
Gil Evans: the decade after the masterpieces with Miles Davis.
Night Lights is WFIU's weekly program of classic jazz hosted by David Brent Johnson.
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