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Posts tagged Horace Parlan

April 7, 2007

 

Jazz, Spiritually Speaking

Slave spirituals were often improvisations upon older hymns that became entirely new songs, and in some ways they foreshadow the birth of American jazz.

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Afterglow Plays Cole Porter

Cole Porter songbook

Johnny Hartman, Blossom Dearie, Dean Martin and others help us pay tribute to the Indiana songwriter.

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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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