Night Lights Classic Jazz
Jazz historian Ted Gioia joins Night Lights this week to talk about his latest book.
The music and story of a bandleader from Terre Haute, Indiana who helped shape the sound of modern jazz.
This Memorial Day weekend Night Lights pays tribute to departed musicians with another program of jazz elegies.
Gil Evans: the decade after the masterpieces with Miles Davis.
Some previous Night Lights shows from the archives, offered as listening suggestions for the coming weekend:Music for Peace: Mary Lou Williams’ Sacred Jazz. An early Night Lights show…
George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess met with only middling success when it debuted in 1935, but stagings in the 1940s and 1950s ensured its place in musical history. With Hollywood poised to make…
Jazz artists have occasionally revisited albums years or decades after their original release, sometimes re-recording them in their entirety.
"Strange Enchantment" is a program of Halloween-related jazz, including music from Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Kay Starr, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and more.
David Brent Johnson hosts the weekly WFIU historical jazz program Night Lights and Afterglow as well. Learn more »
Johnny Hartman, Blossom Dearie, Dean Martin and others help us pay tribute to the Indiana songwriter.
Afterglow is WFIU's weekly program of jazz and American popular song hosted by David Brent Johnson.
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