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April 24, 2012

 

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Jazz For Mad Men: Hits From The 1960s

Night Lights welcomes the return of the television series MAD MEN this week with a program devoted to popular jazz from the era in which the show takes place.

September 23, 2010

 

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Goin’ Up: Space Age Jazz

In the 1950s and 60s the race for space loomed large in the cultural imagination, and jazz artists such as Duke Ellington and Sun Ra picked up on the theme.

August 24, 2007

 

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What do Paul Anka, Mel Torme, and Mamie van Doren Have In Common?

Nuns, teen idols, and the Velvet Fog as a rather mature-looking juvenile delinquent.

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Glenn Miller Goes To War With The Army Air Force Band

Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band

Major Glenn Miller went missing over the English Channel in December 1944. For decades afterwards, much of his wartime orchestra's music went missing as well.

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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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