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.
Emily Remler was a brilliant guitarist, at ease in musical idioms ranging from Brazilian to bop, but she was cut down just as she was entering the prime of her career.
In the 1970s George Benson became a crossover star with vocal hits and a smooth-sounding pop-R and B style, but he’d already established a legacy as a jazz guitarist who brimmed with energy and talent. “Before Broadway” features Benson as a leader and with organists Brother Jack McDuff and Jimmy Smith in straightahead, hard-cooking jazz settings.
In 1969 guitarist Grant Green, who had been sidelined for several years by drug problems, returned to Blue Note Records and the jazz scene. The albums he made for Blue Note in this period reflected…
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