Afterglow Jazz and American Popular Song
Kay Starr is best-known for her 1950s pop-novelty hits “Wheel of Fortune” and “The Rock and Roll Waltz,” but her roots were in the swing era of the 1940s.
A different take on haunted music for Halloween, with evening laments and anguished odes to lost and longed-for love from Julie London, Duke Ellington and more.
Hank Williams may be the king of country music, but pop, jazz and R&B performers have seized upon a number of his songs over the past few decades.
Afterglow kicks off its celebration of the season featuring wintry and celebratory music.
Warm up for the season with Afterglow's “Look Out the Window!”, with music celebrating the start of winter and the holidays.
Madeleine Peyroux casts the same warm, jazz-chanteuse spell with her vocals on her new CD, Half the Perfect World.
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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