This Memorial Day weekend Night Lights show pays tribute to departed musicians with another program of jazz elegies. Turn Out the Stars V. III includes musical remembrances of
- Louis Armstrong
- John Coltrane
- Cannonball Adderley
- Wes Montgomery
and more. Wayne Shorter, who wrote the celebrated "Lester Left Town" for Lester Young in 1959, checked in eight years later as a member of Miles Davis' quintet with "Sweetpea," a tune penned for composer and Duke Ellington cohort, Billy Strayhorn. There's even a short piece that trumpeter Kenny Dorham wrote for himself, "Dorham's Epitaph."
Check out the previous Night Lights jazz-elegies programs, Turn Out the Stars and Turn Out the Stars II.
Cannonball
Watch Weather Report perform "Cannonball," Joe Zawinul's tribute to alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley:
