Night Lights is a weekly classic jazz program and jazz blog by host David Brent Johnson produced by WFIU Public Media in Bloomington, Indiana.
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French culture in the postwar years was strongly influenced by both jazz and the growing American genre of film noir.Autor: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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“No Time Like Now”: Music And Conversation With Vibraphonist Dick Sisto
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"Serious jazz musicians are into their music like it's a religion," says Sisto.Autor: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Lalo Schifrin is best known for his “Mission: Impossible” theme and numerous other film scores, but the pianist and composer first emerged from mid-20th century Argentina as a jazz artist, working with Dizzy Gillespie and recording under his own name as well.Autor: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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As the 1960s neared to a close, the jazz world continued to absorb the cultural upheavals of a volatile decade.Autor: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Jazz Of All Trades: The Eclectic Andre Previn
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Jazzing Broadway songs, scoring movies, conducting classical music: Andre Previn could do it all before he'd even turned 30.Autor: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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A career-spanning musical tribute from WFIU's afternoon jazz program "Just You And Me."Autor: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Pianist Lennie Tristano was a singular and charismatic modernist and mentor whose methods helped point the way for the rise of jazz education.Autor: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Playing Changes: Music And Conversation With Jazz Writer Nate Chinen
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Jazz critic Nate Chinen talks about his recent book "Playing Changes: Jazz For The New Century," and we hear music from some of the artists discussed as well.Autor: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Heard It On The TV: Jazz Takes On Television Themes
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As television rocketed into the entertainment culture of mid-20th-century America, musicians and composers, many of them with jazz backgrounds, were called upon to write themes and cues for the wide variety of programs that populated the airwaves.Autor: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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