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Burning With Bud: Bud Powell Live 1944-1953
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring live broadcasts of the great bebop pianist Bud Powell in the prime of his career.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
The Randy Weston Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz. It's a tribute to the pianist’s music, featuring recordings from Gigi Gryce and Donald Byrd, Booker Ervin, Be...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
East Meets West: Ahmed Abdul-Malik and World Jazz
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring the 1950s and 60s world-jazz music of bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
Handy With The Horn: The Rise Of John Handy
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Hour-long program of classic jazz featuring the 1950s and 60s music of saxophonist John Handy.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Too Little, Too Soon: Booker Little
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the recordings of trumpeter Booker Little, who died at the age of 23 in 1961.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The King at Midpoint: Benny Carter
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the mid-1940s - early-1960s music of saxophonist Benny Carter, in big-band, vocalist, and small-gro...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the music and story of the premiere all-woman big band of the 1940s.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WPTC, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Few Miles From Memphis: Harold Mabern, the Early Years
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the early-period recordings of pianist Harold Mabern both as a leader and with Wes Montgomery, the ...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blues for Moody: A Musical Remembrance of James Moody
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring career-spanning performances of saxophonist and flutist James Moody, who passed away in December 20...

Bought by WPTC, 90.5 WSNC, and KVLU


  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Portrait of Little Jazz: A Centennial Tribute to Roy Eldridge
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, celebrating trumpeter Roy Eldridge.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
Black History Special! "Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program featuring performances of songs with lyrics by author Langston Hughes, including recordings by Nina Simone, June Christy, Jame...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WUIS, KFAI, WEAA, and WPTC


  • Added: Jan 22, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
The Billy Strayhorn Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long 90th-birthday tribute to Duke Ellington’s longtime writing partner, featuring interpretations of his music by John Coltrane, the Dutch...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Nov 29, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Brief History of Mary Lou Williams
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long musical overview of the pianist and arranger/composer’s career, which traced an acr across many movements of 20th century jazz.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Nov 29, 2010
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 1
Star On Miles: the Return of Miles Davis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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A program featuring the early 1980s recordings of trumpeter Miles Davis, made after he came back from a five-year retirement.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
Off the A-Train: Paul Gonsalves 1957-1963
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Hour-long program of classic jazz exploring the late 1950s and early 1960s small-group recordings of tenor saxophonist and Duke Ellington orchestra...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jul 12, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
It's All in the Game: Louis Armstrong, 1947-57
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, focusing on Louis Armstrong’s mid-career years, in which he led the small-group All-Stars, scored chart hits w...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and Mississippi Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Benny Golson Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hourlong program of classic jazz featuring Benny Golson's work from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
1960: Jazz at the Dawn of a Decade
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, featuring jazz recordings from the year 1960, by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, Ornette Coleman,...

Bought by WPTC and KVMR


  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Last of the Lions: Gerald Wilson
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hourlong program of classic jazz. Gerald Wilson's big bands of the 1940s and the 1960s were each modern, progressive orchestras that showcased W...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Birth of Cool Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, exploring a collection of influential jazz material know as "The Birth of the Cool" recorded by a circle of mu...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
Herbie Nichols’ Third World
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hourlong profile of pianist and composer Herbie Nichols, including an interview with jazz writer Mark Miller, author of the biography HERBIE NIC...

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Apr 08, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Wayne Shorter Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
Caption: Wayne Shorter, Credit: photo by Tom Beetz
An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter was an especially prolific composer in the 1960s, writing and recor...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
Portraits of Harlem
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring musical tributes to the so-called “Black Metropolis,” including Duke Ellington’s “Harlem,” Roy Eldr...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WUCF, and WCPN


  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Thelonious Monk: From Myth to Man (Part 2)
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, presenting the second of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special gue...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and KGLT


  • Added: Feb 22, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Black History Special!: Suite History - Four Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by WUCF, Kansas Public Radio, Northstate Public Radio, WVAS, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6

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