| Part of Series | Night Lights Classic Jazz |
| Length | 59:00 |
| Licensor | WFIU |
| Producer(s) | WFiU Public Media (David Brent Johnson) |
| Formats | Documentary, Weekly Program |
| Topics | African American, Historical, Music |
| Produced | October, 2006 |
| Added to PRX | December 27, 2007 |
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one-hour program of classic jazz focusing on recordings made or released in 1959
http://nightlights.blogs.wfiu.org/2006/10/07/1959/
Authoritative, Informational, Thorough
English
The year of 1959 saw an unprecedented spate of jazz masterpieces. Among the albums released or recorded that year were Miles Davis' groundbreaking Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck's blockbuster Time Out, John Coltrane's leap forward Giant Steps, Ornette Coleman's avant-garde salvo The Shape of Jazz to Come, Charles Mingus' revolutionary-in-the-tradition Mingus Ah Um, and Bill Evans' piano-trio template Portrait in Jazz.
Night Lights is available as a weekly series, contact cboyce@indiana.edu for subscription and carriage information.
Producer David Brent Johnson also maintains a widely read jazz blog and archived programs can be found at: http://nightlights.blogs.wfiu.org
