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Jazz Women of the 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
A Night Lights Wonderland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
It’s Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Vince Guaraldi Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A look at the early jazz career and subsequent Peanuts success of pianist Vince Guaraldi, including interviews with jazz critic Doug Ramsey, Guaral...

Bought by KMUW and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
NL 22-44: Jazz Haunts for Halloween, 10/24/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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
THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE (SINGLE HOUR VERSION)
From: Paul Ingles
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NOTE: THIS IS A DIGEST OF ONLY PART OF THE 2 AND 3 HOUR VERSION OF THE SPECIAL SERIES "THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE". THE SINGLE HOUR VERSION I...

Bought by KUNM, KRVS, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE (Hour 1 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: JACKSON BROWNE - 2021, Credit: Paul Ingles
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY TO BE RUN IF YOUR STATION IS RUNNING THE *TWO HOUR VERSON* of THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE. THERE ARE ALSO 3-Hour and Single ...

Bought by Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, North State Public Radio, and KUHF


  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Labor Day Special - "Workin’: The Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Autumn Serenades
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Jazz with an autumnal theme, from Nat King Cole, Kenny Dorham, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington with Frank Sinatra, Sonny Rollins, and more.

Bought by WCVE, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 20
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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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
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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
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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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...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
THE EMERGENCE OF STEVIE WONDER (SINGLE HOUR VERSION)
From: Paul Ingles
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The early emergence and on-going stellar career of musician STEVIE WONDER is explored and discussed in this special (offered this month of June - A...

Bought by WJCT, KUNM, KGOU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
THE EMERGENCE OF STEVIE WONDER (2 HOUR VERSION)
From: Paul Ingles
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The early emergence and on-going stellar career of musician STEVIE WONDER is explored and discussed in this three hour special (offered this month ...

Bought by KMUW, KUNM, KGOU, WGBH Radio Boston, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
Oh Haec: This is the day the Lord has made
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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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
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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
NL 22-07: Diggin' Diz: A Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie, 2/7/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Diggin' Diz: A Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie

  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Single Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Mavis Staples
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...

Bought by WJCT, KUHF, WABE, WVIA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 25
Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington’s Early Black-Pride Music
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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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
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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
A Cool Christmas
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz. Come along for a jzz sleigh ride with music from Shirley Horn, Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, and more...

Bought by WVIA, WHRV, KUAT, WNMU-FM, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 26
Strange Enchantment: Jazz for Halloween
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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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