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2018 Night Lights Fall Funder
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As television rocketed into the entertainment culture of mid-20th-century America, many jazz musicians were called upon to write and/or perform the...

Bought by Harford Community Radio and WDCB


  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 45:40
  • Purchases: 2
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers -- Dr. Shelley Stamp Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Dr. Shelley Stamp talks digging, allegory, and the relative nature of shocking subject matter.

Bought by WDBM and KWMR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2018
  • Length: 16:25
  • Purchases: 2
The Emergence of Bob Dylan (Hour 2) - Paul Ingles Music Archive Showcase #39
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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THE EMERGENCE OF BOB DYLAN traces the incomparable artist's rise to the world stage in the 1960's. Second of two hours.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, KSJE, KUHF and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #136
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Emergence of Bob Dylan (Hour 1) - Paul Ingles Music Archive Showcase #38
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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THE EMERGENCE OF BOB DYLAN traces the incomparable artist's rise to the world stage. First of two hours.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KSJE and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
NL 18-44: Jazz Nocturnes, 10/29/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz and the night: moody, evocative music for the evening.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
NL 18-36: Last Of The Lions: Gerald Wilson, 9/3/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Two of longtime bandleader Gerald Wilson's finest orchestras--his progressive, modernistic 1940s outfit and his 1960s West Coast band.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Some RESPECT for Aretha
From: Paul Ingles
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Aretha Franklin's over 6 decade career is recalled by music documentarian Paul Ingles and a panel of music writers and commentators.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, High Plains Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WABE and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 61
The WHITE ALBUM Listening Party - Hour 2 - Paul Ingles Music Archive Showcase #31
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Part 2 of 3. Beatle fans and musicians gather to re-experience The Beatles' top-selling album, which came to be known as The White Album.

Bought by KFSK, KUPR low power FM, KUPR low power FM, Maine Public Radio, and KSJE


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
NL 18-35: Diggin' Diz: A Musical Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie in the 1940s, 8/27/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Some of the trumpeter's earliest recordings with bandleaders Teddy Hill, Lionel Hampton, and Cab Calloway, as well as music from his incendiary 194...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
NL 18-30: We Brothers Three: The Montgomerys, Heaths, and Jones, 7/23/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A program of music from three trios of brothers—Wes, Buddy and Monk Montgomery; Hank, Elvin and Thad Jones; and Jimmy, Percy, and Tootie Heath.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
NL 18-33: Music In All Things: W. Eugene Smith And The Jazz Loft, 8/13/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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From the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s a five-story building in the heart of Manhattan served as a gathering place for jazz musicians and other a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
NL 18-28: Jazz in the French New Wave Cinema, 7/9/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The collaboration of American jazz artists such as Miles Davis and Art Blakey with French filmmakers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Film schola...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
NL 18-25: Dolphy '64, 6/18/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Music from the last year of saxophonist Eric Dolphy’s life, including his landmark LP Out to Lunch and collaborations with Charles Mingus and Andre...

  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
NL 18-23: Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People, 6/4/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Cafe Society was New York City's first integrated nightclub and a cultural flashpoint for artists, jazz musicians, intellectuals, and activists of ...

  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
NL 18-21: Ready For Freddie Redd, 5/21/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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At the dawn of the 1960s pianist Freddie Redd made several albums for the Blue Note label filled with taut, punchy hardbop compositions.

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:05
THE EMERGENCE OF PAUL SIMON - Hour 2 - Paul Ingles' Music Showcase Edition - #016
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Hour two of a two-hour exploration of the seminal work of heralded songwriter Paul Simon as revealed by musicians, writers and fans and archival in...

Bought by KFSK, WPVM 103.7, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
NL 18-16: Before Broadway: George Benson in the 1960s, 4/16/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1970s George Benson was a crossover star with a smooth pop style, but he’d already established a legacy as a jazz guitarist brimming with ta...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
NL 18-13: Joni + Jazz: Joni Mitchell, 3/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz interpretations of Mitchell's music, plus the songwriter's own jazz-influenced recordings from the 1970s.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:03
Paul Ingles' Music Showcase #011 - Right on Target, So Direct: Bob Dylan's BLOOD ON THE TRACKS (Hour 1)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Hour 1 of a celebration and exploration of "Blood on the Tracks," the Bob Dylan album voted his best in a Rolling Stone magazine fan survey. Music...

Bought by KFSK, WPVM 103.7, KSJE, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
NL 18-09: The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of Dorothy Ashby, 2/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
NL 18-08: Say It Loud: Black-Pride Soul Jazz, 2/19/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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As the black-pride movement gained momentum in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an increasing number of jazz artists began to incorporate the messag...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
NL 18-05: Handy On the Horn: John Handy, 1/29/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Tenor saxophonist John Handy gained prominence with Charles Mingus' late-1950s group and went on to record as a leader for both the Roulette and Co...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
NL 18-01: Best Historical Releases Of 2017, 1/1/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Music from Sonny Clark, Thelonious Monk, Jaco Pastorious, Bill Evans, and other artists featured in 2017 reissues and archival releases.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
NL 17-52: The Night Before Christmas: Holiday Jazz, 12/18/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Holiday jazz from Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Louis Armstrong, Duke Pearson, Frank Sinatra, and others.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:59