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Off The A-Train: Paul Gonsalves, 1957-63

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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.

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It’s All in the Game: Louis Armstrong, 1947-1957

Photos and album covers

Jazz writer Dan Morgenstern and historian Michael McGerr join us to talk Louis Armstrong and bebop, pop ballads, the Cold War and more.

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Good Vibes: Music for the Final Days of the Online Fund-Drive

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.

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The Prestige Records Story

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!

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I’d Like to Listen, Please: Dennis Hopper Among the Jazz Beatniks

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.

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Mosaic Records in Discussions to Release Savory Collection

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.

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An Iconic Voice, An Iconic Eye: Abbey Lincoln and Herman Leonard

CD and book covers.

Abbey Lincoln personified the soul of jazz; Herman Leonard caught it with his camera.

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Pull Your Coat, August 6: Abbey Lincoln, Nat Cole, Jackie McLean

An 80th-birthday tribute to singer Abbey Lincoln, a Jackie McLean documentary, a newly-discovered Nat King Cole concert, and more.

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Two for the Blues, Weekend Edition: Annie Ross and Basquiat

A program about the singer, a movie about the artist.

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Pull Your Coat: Jazz News and Links for June 19, 2010

A new remembrance of Henry Grimes' 2003 return to jazz, Herbie Hancock's latest, and more.

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That Ole Devil Called Love

It's the most written-about topic in the history of popular song L-O-V-E, as Nat King Cole once sang.

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Afterglow is WFIU's weekly program of jazz and American popular song hosted by David Brent Johnson.

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