Afterglow Jazz and American Popular Song
Helen Forrest's ode to Cincinnati, Nina Simone's lament for Baltimore, and much more.
Building the modern pop-rock American songbook: Cassandra Wilson sings the Monkees, Neil Young, and more.
A 65th-birthday tribute to the songwriter, featuring interpretations of his music from Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield, Johnny Rivers, Nina Simone, and more.
Singer Nina Simone took songs of the counterculture and made them her own.
Doris Day is a celebrated American movie icon—but there’s much more to her legacy than PILLOW TALK.
Afterglow bursts into early-April bloom this week with odes to the spring both happy and sad from Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller and more.
This week on Afterglow we’ll feature one of the more swinging Stan Kenton units, his 1956 “Contemporary Concepts” orchestra.
This week on Afterglow we celebrate the recent birthday of Hoagy Carmichael, with interpretations of Carmichael classics from many performers.
This week on Afterglow it's “Ghost of a Song,” a program of otherworldly songs in honor of the upcoming Halloween holiday.
This week on Afterglow we’ll feature a recent collection of Judy Garland’s late-1950s and early-1960s Capitol albums. Though Garland has sometimes been branded as a showbiz belter, we’ll be highlighting some of the torch ballads that she recorded for Capitol with arrangers like Gordon Jenkins and Nelson Riddle.
David Brent Johnson hosts the weekly WFIU historical jazz program Night Lights and Afterglow as well. Learn more »
In musical remembrance of artists past: Night Lights returns with another program of jazz elegies for Memorial Day weekend.
Night Lights is WFIU's weekly program of classic jazz hosted by David Brent Johnson.
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