Night Lights Classic Jazz

KPBX 91.1, Wednesday, 11pm-12midnight

Listings:

July 28, 2010
The Horace Silver Songbook
Interpretations of the hardbop pianist's music by himself and others, including Art Pepper, Woody Herman, and Art Blakey.

August 4, 2010
Very Cool: Lee Konitz, the Verve Years
Recordings made by the alto saxophonist with Warne Marsh, Jimmy Giuffre, Bill Evans, and Elvin Jones.

August 11, 2010
Young Wynton: Early Marsalis
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has become a prominent and sometimes-controversial spokesperson for jazz. In his late teens and early twenties, however, he was regarded simply as a talented rising star. This program features his early recordings with Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Chico Freeman, and more.

August 18, 2010
Jazz Nocturnes
Moody late-night jazz ballads from Oliver Nelson, Artie Shaw, Johnny Griffin, Sonny Berman and more.

August 25, 2010
The Charlie Parker Songbook Memorial
Music from tribute records and concerts for Charlie Parker, with performances of Parker's music by Bud Powell, Red Rodney, Ira Sullivan, and more.

September 1, 2010
Work Songs in Jazz
Jazz historian Ted Gioia joins us for this Labor Day week special about the influence of work songs on jazz.

September 8, 2010
Jazz From Monterey
Historic performances from the famous jazz festival by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Shirley Horn and others.

September 15, 2010
Space Age Jazz
Music from Booker Ervin, George Russell, Duke Ellington, Sun Ra and more.

September 22, 2010
Brothers
Music from brother teams in jazz such as Thad, Elvin and Hank Jones, Cannonball and Nat Adderley, and Wes, Buddy and Monk Montgomery.

September 29, 2010
Just the Contrafacts: the Building Blocks of Bebop
How songs like "Indiana" and "I Got Rhythm" became the cornerstones of the bebop movement.

About the show:
Night Lights, WFIU's weekly jazz program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focuses on jazz from th 1945-1990 era, 2008a timespan that, as Johnson notes, "weirdly parallels Miles Davis on record and the Cold War."

Covering artists such as Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus,
and Nina Simone and themes ranging from jazz recordings
of spirituals to avant-garde interpretations of the Great American Songbook, Night Lights also features many lesser-known jazz talents.

Host David Brent Johnson also maintains a widely read jazz blog and website that contains streaming archives of all past programs at: http://nightlights.blogs.wfiu.org