Night Lights is a weekly classic jazz program and jazz blog by host David Brent Johnson produced by WFIU Public Media in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Jazz In The Postwar French Cinema
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French culture in the postwar years was strongly influenced by both jazz and the growing American genre of film noir.De către Night Lights Classic Jazz
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“No Time Like Now”: Music And Conversation With Vibraphonist Dick Sisto
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"Serious jazz musicians are into their music like it's a religion," says Sisto.De către Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Lalo Schifrin is best known for his “Mission: Impossible” theme and numerous other film scores, but the pianist and composer first emerged from mid-20th century Argentina as a jazz artist, working with Dizzy Gillespie and recording under his own name as well.De către Night Lights Classic Jazz
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As the 1960s neared to a close, the jazz world continued to absorb the cultural upheavals of a volatile decade.De către Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Jazz Of All Trades: The Eclectic Andre Previn
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Jazzing Broadway songs, scoring movies, conducting classical music: Andre Previn could do it all before he'd even turned 30.De către Night Lights Classic Jazz
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A career-spanning musical tribute from WFIU's afternoon jazz program "Just You And Me."De către Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Lennie Tristano: The Jazz Guru
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Pianist Lennie Tristano was a singular and charismatic modernist and mentor whose methods helped point the way for the rise of jazz education.De către Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Playing Changes: Music And Conversation With Jazz Writer Nate Chinen
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Jazz critic Nate Chinen talks about his recent book "Playing Changes: Jazz For The New Century," and we hear music from some of the artists discussed as well.De către Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Heard It On The TV: Jazz Takes On Television Themes
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As television rocketed into the entertainment culture of mid-20th-century America, musicians and composers, many of them with jazz backgrounds, were called upon to write themes and cues for the wide variety of programs that populated the airwaves.De către Night Lights Classic Jazz
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