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.
“She Wrote the Song” highlights standards written or co-written by women composers who, in the early decades of American popular song, had to struggle for the limelight, as women had to in so many areas of American life.
Afterglow’s stroll down the lane of reverie continues this week with “Street of Dreams Revisited,” featuring music from Patricia Barber, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Madeleine Peyroux, Peggy Lee, Jackie Paris, Mary Ann McCall, and others.
This week on Afterglow we take a look back at some of the best new releases and reissues from 2007, including Kurt Elling’s Nightmoves , Tierney Sutton’s On the Other Side , Nat King Cole’s Where Did Everyone Go , and Till Bronner’s Ocean , plus much more. We also pay tribute to the late jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, featuring his collaborations with vocalist Anita O’Day, saxophonist Ben Webster, and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.
This week on Afterglow we note the passing of a legendary jazz vocalist, Anita O’Day, who died on Thanksgiving Day 2006 at the age of 87. O’Day began her career as a dancer in Depression walkathons, then moved on to the 1940s world of big-band singing, where she became a star in Gene Krupa’s orchestra, scoring a smash hit with the song “Let Me Off Uptown” (which also earned notoriety in then-segregated America for its vocal wordplay between the white O’Day and black trumpeter Roy Eldridge).
This week on Afterglow we inaugurate a new annual tradition with “The Hoagy Carmichael Songbook.” Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899; with his birthday so close to Thanksgiving, we’ll devote the Friday show after the holiday entirely to his music every year on Afterglow.
This week on Afterglow we’ll feature the late-1950s Pacific Jazz albums of pianist, arranger, and composer Gil Evans. Evans is legendary for his late-1950s work with trumpeter Miles Davis ( Miles Ahead , Porgy and Bess , Sketches of Spain).
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