Night Lights Classic Jazz

KPBX 91.1, Wednesday, 11pm-12midnight

Listings:
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