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.
Afterglow features a different take on haunted music for Halloween, with evening laments and anguished odes to lost and longed-for love from Julie London, Kay Starr, Duke Ellington, Cassandra Wilson and more.
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.
This week on Afterglow it’s our annual songs-of-the-season ode to autumn, with music for the fall from Blossom Dearie, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Nat King Cole, Julie London, and many other classic performers of jazz and American popular song. We’ll also feature the rarely-heard 1950 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Hoagy Carmichael’s “Brown County in Autumn,” an extended musical work that the Hoosier songwriter penned in tribute to the southern Indiana artists’ colony.
This week on Afterglow it’s “Easy to Love: Roberta Gambarini.” Italian-born, Gambarini came to the United States in the late 1990s on a scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music. After finishing third in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal competition, she moved to New York City and came under the tutelage of musicians such as jazz great Benny Carter.
This week on Afterglow it’s “Look Out the Window!” We’ll begin to celebrate the start of winter and the holidays with music from Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Bud Shank, June Christy, Julie London, Kay Starr, Jo Stafford, Claude Thornhill, Dexter Gordon, and many more.
This week on Afterglow we’ll feature a new compilation of early-1950s recordings from Bobby Troup, author of “Route 66,” as well as the very first session that Troup’s eventual wife Julie London recorded (the two also starred in the early 1970s TV program Emergency! ).
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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.
This week on Afterglow it’s our annual songs-of-the-season ode to autumn, with music for the fall from Blossom Dearie, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Nat King Cole, Julie London, and many other classic performers of jazz and American popular song. We’ll also feature the rarely-heard 1950 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Hoagy Carmichael’s “Brown County in Autumn,” an extended musical work that the Hoosier songwriter penned in tribute to the southern Indiana artists’ colony.
This week on Afterglow it’s “Easy to Love: Roberta Gambarini.” Italian-born, Gambarini came to the United States in the late 1990s on a scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music. After finishing third in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal competition, she moved to New York City and came under the tutelage of musicians such as jazz great Benny Carter.
This week on Afterglow it’s “Look Out the Window!” We’ll begin to celebrate the start of winter and the holidays with music from Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Bud Shank, June Christy, Julie London, Kay Starr, Jo Stafford, Claude Thornhill, Dexter Gordon, and many more.