Night Lights Classic Jazz
Gil Evans: the decade after the masterpieces with Miles Davis.
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In the 1960s cornetist Don Cherry, who had to come to fame as a member of Ornette Coleman’s quartet, began to forge his own musical path.
Night Lights welcomes the return of the television series MAD MEN this week with a program devoted to popular jazz from the era in which the show takes place.
From 1973 to 2004 the Dutch radio show “Tros Sesjun” broadcast live jazz every week, featuring artists such as Bill Evans in their late-period prime.
The swing era may have been the age of the big bands, but bandleaders often found it worth their while to break small groups out of their larger orchestras.
A playlist and some programs for America's national holiday.
Help Night Lights make its online fund-drive goal this year! Any and all contributions make a difference. Afterwards, enjoy a historic Sonny Rollins solo.
A hard-swinging big band paired with a jazz legend in the making.
Programs for the holiday of personal and public remembrance.
More jazz with a Western theme, this time from Grant Green, Dexter Gordon, Ornette Coleman, and others.
David Brent Johnson hosts the weekly WFIU historical jazz program Night Lights and Afterglow as well. Learn more »
Afterglow takes a popular-song journey across the 1960s and 70s American pop landscape through the work of two songwriters.
Afterglow is WFIU's weekly program of jazz and American popular song hosted by David Brent Johnson.
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