Night Lights Classic Jazz Radio Program and Jazz Blog with David Brent Johnson

Night Lights is a weekly one-hour radio program of classic jazz hosted by David Brent Johnson and produced by WFIU Public Radio. Night Lights airs on WFIU HD1 Saturday at 11:05 p.m.

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Juneteenth

Original Airdate: June 18th, 2005

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RobesonThis week on Night Lights it’s a “Juneteenth Jamboree,” with music in celebration of the African-American holiday (commemorating the end of slavery in the United States) from Louis Jordan, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach (”Freedom Day” from the Freedom Now Suite), Duke Ellington (his “Emancipation Proclamation” from The Black, Brown and Beige Suite), and more, including a historic meeting of African-American cultural figures–Count Basie, Paul Robeson, and Richard Wright (pictured above) for “King Joe,” a song about boxing champion Joe Louis. “Juneteenth Jamboree” airs on the eve of Juneteenth–Saturday, June 18 at 11:05 p.m.

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