Friends

• Allen Lowe

  Musician & author of jazz history THAT DEVLIN’ TUNE.

• Barak Weiss

  Night Lights’ Middle Eastern jazz connection.

• Bill Barton

  Jazz DJ and host of KBCS-Bellevue/Seattle’s adventurous late-night program “Bright Moments”

• Bill Kirchner

  Jazz musician, composer, educator, historian and monthly host of “Jazz From the Archives” on WBGO.

• Chris Albertson

  A two-time Grammy winner, Bessie Smith biographer, and veteran jazz producer and writer, Chris listens to Night Lights from his digs in New York City and is currently at work on an autobiography.

• David Baker

  The Dean of Jazz. Trombonist, cellist, composer, and multiple-multiple award winner.

• Dick Bishop

  Creator and longtime host of WFIU’s jazz-and-American-popular-song program Afterglow. Class, panache, great taste… just a few possible word choices for the Wikipedia entry that somebody should write about Dick.

• Frank Kimbrough

  Pianist and co-founder of the Herbie Nichols Project (he can be heard on the Night Lights show “Strange City”)

• Jason Crane

  Host of “The Jazz Session.”

• Jason Nickey and Heath Byers

  Proprietors of Bloomington’s Landlocked Music–one of the finest independent record stores in the nation.

• Jeremy Allen

  Bassist extraordinaire.

• Joe Bourne

  Host of the WFIU jazz programs “Just You and Me” and “The Big Bands.”

• John McCluskey

  Novelist, Indiana University professor, former Harvard quarterback, and serious jazz fan.

• Ken Lovell

  Associate Director of the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

• Krin Gabbard

  A ground-breaking jazz-studies scholar and author, in his previous academic life Krin hosted a weekly WFIU show devoted to the music of Duke Ellington.

• Lance Liddle

  Jazz reports from North East England.

• Lazaro Vega

  Jazz DJ for Michigan’s Blue Lake Public Radio

• Matthew Williams

  Thoughts on Thomas Merton, Miles Davis and more.

• Michael McGerr

  An American historian and Indiana University professor, Michael also possesses an expertise and passion for jazz and other forms of popular music. You can hear him in the previous WFIU documentaries “Bix Beiderbecke: Never the Same Way Twice” and “Jump fo

• Nate Dorward

  A jazz writer, blogger, and Night Lights listener from the north.

• Organissimo

  The band that runs the forum: a mighty organ trio from Michigan, featuring Jim Alfredson on Hammond B-3, Joe Gloss on guitar, and Randy Marsh on drums. Smoking permitted whenever these guys play…by necessity.

• Ryan J. Bruce

  Station director for community radio station KBRP in Bisbee, Arizona.

• Ted O’Reilly

  Longtime Canadian jazz DJ, producer, and advocate.

• Wayne Manns

  A jazz-inspired, Bloomington-based artist.