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Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has become a prominent and sometimes-controversial spokesperson for jazz. In his late teens and early twenties, however, ...
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Throughout the 1950s jazz promoter George Wein ran a Boston nightclub that showcased some of the music’s most notable performers.
- Added: Sep 17, 2021
- Length: 59:01
In the 1960s drummer Chico Hamilton moved on from his 1950s West Coast chamber jazz sound with a new group that featured musicians such as Charles ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2021
- Length: 59:03
We often think of jazz in terms of albums, but mid-20th-century jazz was a popular artform on jukeboxes and singles as well.
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 59:02
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
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This week on Harmonia, we’re asking “what gives?” or rather, “Who gives?” We’ve strung together pieces of music from the thirteenth through ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2021
- Length: 59:01
Saxophonist Charlie Parker revolutionized the sound of jazz when he arrived on the scene in the 1940s, and this week on Night Lights, we’ll celebra...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 59:00
A centennial celebration of Lennie Tristano, a pioneering cool-school pianist and mentor to musicians such as Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh.
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 59:01
Selections from Mosaic Records' long-awaited collection of previously unreleased late 1930s and early '40s broadcasts from Coleman Hawkins, Count B...
- Added: Jul 24, 2021
- Length: 59:00
This musical profile of a trailblazer for women instrumentalists in jazz features Osborne's 1940s recordings with Mary Lou Williams and others, two...
- Added: Jul 09, 2021
- Length: 59:02
Recordings the hardbop pianist made in his last year as a leader and with Jackie McLean, Grant Green, and others.
- Added: Jul 02, 2021
- Length: 59:02
Author Sam Stephenson talks with us about the legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith and the ways in which his life intersected with New York City'...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Music from the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival includes Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Jack Teagarden (just a few months before his death), and Dizzy Gi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Drummer Shelly Manne’s 1950s groups recorded everything from experimental and West Coast jazz to Broadway music and TV themes. We’ll hear selection...
- Added: Jun 06, 2021
- Length: 59:01
Highlighting pianist Ahmad Jamal’s frequently-overlooked late 1960s/early 70s stretch on the Impulse label.
- Added: May 27, 2021
- Length: 59:01
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...
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- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
Another in our ongoing series of musical tributes to jazz artists who have passed, featuring music from Charles Mingus, Woody Shaw, Miles Davis and...
- Added: May 20, 2021
- Length: 59:00
A tribute to the clarinetist featuring his bop-influenced 1949 big band and his early-1950s small-group recordings.
- Added: May 13, 2021
- Length: 59:01
Longtime jazz and blues producer and radio host Bob Porter passed away in April at the age of 80. On a previous Night Lights show he joined us to ...
- Added: May 02, 2021
- Length: 59:02
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is celebrated in Hour 1 of this 2-Hour special. Music host Paul Ingles talks with drummer and writer Mike Edi...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
We'll hear music from the 1950s recordings of multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, one of the first artists to incorporate world-music influences in...
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 59:02
A tribute to the 1950s jazz recordings of the late pianist and composer Andre Previn.
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 59:01
At the dawn of the 1960s, pianist Freddie Redd made several albums for the Blue Note label filled with taut, punchy hardbop compositions, including...
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 59:01
Drummer Roy Haynes’ career on record reads like a roll call of jazz history. We’ll hear him with Lester Young, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and others.
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi joins us to discuss a vital and often-overlooked period of the trumpeter’s career.
- Added: Feb 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
