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Night Lights Classic Jazz
Music from the LP many considered Andrew Hill’s masterpiece, Point of Departure, as well as Black Fire, Judgment, Andrew!, and more.
Jazz writer David Rosenthal called Jackie McLean and Lee Morgan "a frontline match made in hardbop heaven."
During the mid-1970s Hutcherson was able to maintain and lead a strong working group, and to also bring in talented colleagues for studio dates.
Tony Williams was renowned as one of the great drummers of jazz. His late-1980s acoustic quintet highlights his compositional skills as well.
Green's turn-of-the-decade recordings filtered the new sounds of the late 1960s through jazz guitar.
A special tribute to the alto saxophonist, who passed away on March 31, 2006.
In the early 1970s, trumpeter Lee Morgan was striking out in new directions, incorporating elements of modality, free jazz, and fusion into his music.
We'll hear music from two sessions done with a string quartet, a trio and septet date, and a session with Hill performing on organ.
Not long after bassist Charles Mingus' death in 1979, three men who had played frequently with him throughout the 1970s began a group of their own.
We'll hear a melding of 1950s bop sensibility with the new ideas and approaches so prevalent in the jazz world of the early 1960s.
David Brent Johnson hosts the weekly WFIU historical jazz program Night Lights and Afterglow as well. Learn more »
Some of the most tearful songs of the Great American Songbook, including "Cry Me A River," "I Cried For You," and "Willow Weep For Me."
Afterglow is WFIU's weekly program of jazz and American popular song hosted by David Brent Johnson.
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