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.
It’s the most written-about topic in the history of popular song (OK, I don’t have statistics at hand to back that statement up, but I’ll go ahead and climb out on what I think is a very solid limb to proclaim it): L-O-V-E, as Nat King Cole once sang.
The dream’s the theme on this edition of Afterglow, as “Street of Dreams” takes a look at popular songs that evoke an ethereal drift of mind, with music from Bing Crosby, Chet Baker, Lee Wiley, Nat King Cole, Dianne Reeves, Frank Sinatra, and many more, including a full set of dream-related songs written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
This edition of Afterglow takes a look at some favorite new releases and reissues/historical releases from 2008, including music from Cassandra Wilson, Marilyn Scott, Benny Goodman with Fred Astaire, Helen Merrill, Frank Sinatra, Robin McKelle, and others.
Features on Afterglow this week include pianist and singer Patricia Barber’s recent tribute to Indiana songwriter Cole Porter, a new release from vocalist Robin McKelle, a reissue of Lorez Alexandria’s 1963 album For Swingers Only, and a previously-unreleased Chet Baker studio session from 1986.
Music from Frank Kimbrough’s latest release, as well as a conversation with the pianist.
This week on Afterglow we’ll feature music from a new anthology of bassist Charlie Haden’s classic-jazz-and-film tribute band, Quartet West, as well as recordings from Andy Bey, Stanley Turrentine, Madeleine Peyroux, Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, and Nancy Wilson.
This week on Afterglow we’ll feature previously unreleased concert recordings from Stan Kenton’s 1956 “Contemporary Concepts” orchestra—one of the more swinging Kenton units, featuring soloists such as saxophonists Lennie Niehaus, Jack Nimitz, and Bill Perkins, trombonist Carl Fontana, and drummer Mel Lewis, tackling a dozen of arranger Bill Holman’s charts.
This week on Afterglow we continue program founder Dick Bishop’s “Songs of the Season” tradition with a show of songs about the springtime. We’ll hear music from Nat King Cole, June Christy, Blossom Dearie (two spring songs written by big-band singer Dick Haymes’ brother Bob), Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Mel Torme, Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, and many more.
This week on Afterglow we’ll feature more recent reissues from EMI’s “Great Jazz Vocal Collection” series, with entries from Dakota Staton ( Dynamic! —her followup to her smash 1958 hit The Late, Late Show ), June Christy ( The Intimate Miss Christy —a small-group, late-night album and one of the last that Christy recorded for Capitol), and Dinah Shore ( Dinah Shore Sings, Andre Previn Plays — showcasing Shore in a jazz-piano-trio setting).
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