Night Lights Classic Jazz
Charlie Parker was only 34 when he died in 1955, but he'd already changed the sound of jazz forever. Fans and fellow musicians were determined to celebrate him.
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Paul Gonsalves became a jazz legend through his 1956 Newport big-band solo, but he knew his way around a small-group too.
Jazz writer Dan Morgenstern and historian Michael McGerr join us to talk Louis Armstrong and bebop, pop ballads, the Cold War and more.
Your contribution could be the one to put us over the top, as Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, Lem Winchester and others provide the soundtrack for support.
A special online fund-drive show featuring classic sides from the Prestige label. You can enjoy some great jazz and help us make our goal at the same time!
Daddy-O! Father-And-Son Teams In Jazz
Jazzing The Cool With Ted Gioia
The Last: Final Recordings Of Jazz Greats
Shaw Sounds Final: Artie Shaw, 1949-54
Charles McPherson’s Post-Bird Bop
Returning The Call: More From The Unsung Hardbop Heroes Of Chicago
1960: Jazz At The Dawn Of A Decade
The “Birth Of The Cool” Songbook
A young Dennis Hopper, that is, as a curious sailor who meets a most unusual lady at a jazz club in the 1961 movie NIGHT TIDE.
The New York Times reports that the reissue label is in talks with the National Jazz Museum to release music from the William Savory collection on CD.
Abbey Lincoln personified the soul of jazz; Herman Leonard caught it with his camera.
An 80th-birthday tribute to singer Abbey Lincoln, a Jackie McLean documentary, a newly-discovered Nat King Cole concert, and more.
A program about the singer, a movie about the artist.
A new remembrance of Henry Grimes' 2003 return to jazz, Herbie Hancock's latest, and more.
David Brent Johnson hosts the weekly WFIU historical jazz program Night Lights and Afterglow as well. Learn more »
It's the most written-about topic in the history of popular song L-O-V-E, as Nat King Cole once sang.
Afterglow is WFIU's weekly program of jazz and American popular song hosted by David Brent Johnson.
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