This edition of Night Lights is a salute to warmer weather with “Let’s Spring One,” including music from Ike Quebec, Thelonious Monk & Milt Jackson, Anita O’Day, Nat King Cole, Charlie Parker, June Christy, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Freddie Hubbard, and more.
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Archived Audio and playlists for the previous week's program are posted each Monday morning.
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- Songs of Peace
- The Arrival of Victor Feldman
- The Avant-Garde Plays the Great American Songbook
- Second Magic City: Sun Ra in Chicago
- When Betty Met the Duke: Betty Roche
- Side Monk: Thelonious Monk as Sideman
- The Duke Pearson Songbook
- A Profound Gas: Peter Gunn
- Jackie McLean and Lee Morgan: the Dynamic Hardbop Duo
- Star on Miles: the Return of Miles Davis
- The Connection: the Living Theater and Hardbop Jazz
- Last of the Lions: Gerald Wilson
- The Horace Silver Songbook
- The Wayne Shorter Songbook
- Away From the Spaceways: John Gilmore
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