Night Lights Classic Jazz Radio Program and Jazz Blog with David Brent Johnson

Night Lights is a weekly one-hour radio program of classic jazz hosted by David Brent Johnson and produced by WFIU Public Radio. Night Lights airs on WFIU HD1 Saturday at 11:05 p.m.

August 30, 2008

Night Lights on Labor Day–Chicago and Elsewhere

By David Brent Johnson

labor poster WDCB, one of two stations in the Chicago area that continue to broadcast jazz, is airing three Night Lights programs in a row on Labor Day Monday evening, from 7 to 10 p.m. Central Time–Cats Who Swing and Sing: Women Singer-Pianists of the 1940s and 50s, 1959: Jazz’s Vintage Year, and Porgy and Bess: the 1950s Jazz Revival. KUNV-Las Vegas will also broadcast The Horace Silver Songbook at 10 a.m. Pacific Time Monday morning, on the eve of Silver’s 80th birthday. (KMHD-Portland, Oregon, which carries Night Lights weekly, will air the Silver program in its regular Monday 8 p.m. PT timeslot.) As always, this weekend’s show will be available by Monday for online listening as well. Happy Labor Day… with hopes for a cool autumn ahead.