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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.

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Dearly Beloved: Husband-and-Wife Teams in Jazz

Turrentine Dearly BelovedLong-term love and art go hand-in-hand on this edition of Night Lights, with a focus on couplings both romantic and musical. Though the rigors of the jazz life made marriage difficult to sustain for marital partners who played together as well, artists such as Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott, Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour, John and Alice Coltrane, Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, and June Christy and Bob Cooper left behind impressive recorded legacies.

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The Lighthouse All-Stars

LighthouseIn 1949 former Stan Kenton bassist Howard Rumsey began a series of Sunday afternoon performances at the Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach, California, a club that had formerly catered mostly to merchant marines and other sailors. These jam sessions eventually spawned the collective known as the Lighthouse All-Stars, featuring many…

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