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August 4, 2010

 

Some performers featured on the show.

What’s New: July 2010

Vocalist Ron Gill's veteran authority, pianist-singer Champian Fulton's youthful pose, and more.

July 24, 2010

 

Singin’ and Swingin’ With Annie Ross

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.

June 25, 2010

 

Loesser Is More: the Frank Loesser Centennial

Frank Loesser wrote or co-wrote some of the most memorable music of mid-20th-century American popular song.

June 16, 2010

 

CDs featured on the show

What’s New: June 2010

New, not necessarily blue: Afterglow's latest survey of recent releases.

May 29, 2010

 

The covers from two recent box-sets.

Bing Crosby and Stan Getz: Two New Anthologies

Stan Getz's final bow, and Bing Crosby's treasure-trove of previously-unreleased small-group recordings of standards.

May 22, 2010

 

Images of Shaw and his vocalists.

Artie Shaw and the Singers

A centennial tribute to bandleader Artie Shaw highlighting the records he made with vocalists, including Helen Forrest, Billie Holiday, and Mel Torme.

May 17, 2010

 

This Is All I Ask: Gordon Jenkins at 100

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.

May 10, 2010

 

Anita Gravine and Gerry Mulligan

Singer Anita Gravine pays tribute to music of the Italian cinema, plus music from the final studio dates of saxophonist Gerry Mulligan.

April 16, 2010

 

What’s New: April 2010

Pianist Luke Gillespie's unexpected CD, a new love-songs compilation from Jackie Ryan, and a solo outing from Kurt Elling collaborator Laurence Hobgood.

April 9, 2010

 

Songs of the Season: Spring

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.

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