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Smoke dreams, sorcerors, ghosts, and stalking monsters! We'll experience those paranormal jazz encounters with those spectors through the music of ...

Added: Oct 20, 2022
Length: 59:00

Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more

Added: Aug 25, 2022
Length: 59:03
Purchases: 20

NL 22-36: Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, 8/29/2022

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...

Added: Aug 25, 2022
Length: 59:03

Oh Haec: This is the day the Lord has made

From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials

There’s an antiphon that features in the masses for Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Its words begin: “This is the day the Lord has made,” and e...

Added: Mar 24, 2022
Length: 59:00

NL 22-12: Jazz Women of the 1940s, 3/14/2022

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

Added: Mar 11, 2022
Length: 59:04

Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington’s Early Black-Pride Music

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, Ellington was writing music that celebrated African-American culture, personalities,...

Bought by WJCT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTXK and more

Added: Jan 31, 2022
Length: 59:02
Purchases: 6

NL 22-06: Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes, 1/31/2022

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus and others.

Added: Jan 28, 2022
Length: 58:59

1963: A Man's Dream, A Nation's Nightmare

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

An hour-long jazz special: It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more

Added: Jan 02, 2022
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 24

Strange Enchantment: Jazz for Halloween

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

Music for the holiday from Duke Ellington, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Kay Starr, and others. We'll also hear comedian Lenny Bruce's impersonation of Drac...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.

Added: Oct 25, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

NL 21-36: Glenn Miller Goes To War with the Army Air Force Band, 8/30/2021

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

In 1942 Glenn Miller broke up his popular big band and joined the military, where he formed a new and even bigger orchestra that included strings, ...

Added: Aug 29, 2021
Length: 59:01

The Songs That Won The War (Memorial Day Special)

From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials

From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special, we look at the songs of World W...

Bought by KSKA, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KRCB 104.9, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSKA and more

Added: May 24, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 13

HARM 20-52: There Were Shepherds, 12/21/2020

From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia

It may be nearing the Christmas season, but don’t pour the hot cocoa just yet! This week on Harmonia, we’re going outside-- not into the snow, but ...

Added: Dec 03, 2020
Length: 58:59

Buffalo NY: Grappling with Gentrification in one of America’s Most Unequal Cities

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Added: Oct 21, 2020
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 2

Covid in the Country

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Is being rural a pre-existing vulnerability in this crisis? Equipped with a mask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports (from a responsible dis...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer

Added: Jun 25, 2020
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 3

NL 20-25: The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree, 6/15/2020

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

A jazz tribute to Juneteenth, the African-American holiday marking the end of slavery, with music from Paul Robeson and Count Basie, John Coltrane,...

Added: Jun 11, 2020
Length: 59:00

Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Added: Mar 19, 2020
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 2

Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star. ...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more

Added: Mar 13, 2020
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 9

NL 20-12: Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s, 3/16/2020

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.

Added: Mar 12, 2020
Length: 59:00

NL 19-51: A Cool Christmas, 12/16/2019

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

Night Lights celebrates the holiday season with from Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, June Christy, and more.

Added: Dec 12, 2019
Length: 58:57

Holiday Special: "There Were Shepherds"

From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials

It may be nearing the Christmas season, but don’t pour the hot cocoa just yet! On this holiday edition of Harmonia, we’re going outside – not into ...

Bought by WILL