Afterglow Jazz and American Popular Song
New music from pianists Ahmad Jamal & Keith Jarrett, a live recording from guitarist Kenny Burrell, and excerpts from jazz suites by Ted Nash and Frank Glover.
Soul singers Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Lou Rawls, Gladys Knight and James Brown give us their takes on the Great American Songbook.
In 1949 Nat King Cole took his popular trio and a bongo player into Carnegie Hall for a swinging concert of hits and bop and Latin-influenced tunes.
Something old, something new: live radio broadcasts of the Claude Thornhill big band, and a recent release from the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra.
David Brent Johnson hosts the weekly WFIU historical jazz program Night Lights and Afterglow as well. Learn more »
JazzWax blogger and Wall Street Journal music writer Marc Myers discusses his book about how cultural, economic, and social forces shaped the sound of jazz.
Night Lights is WFIU's weekly program of classic jazz hosted by David Brent Johnson.
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