Links:

• Blogroll

  • 33 1/3
    Home site for the series of mini-books about classic albums (mostly pop-rock).
  • Bagatellen
    A site primarily jazz-oriented, but with interesting cultural points of departure.
  • be.jazz
    Incisive jazz commentary.
  • Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
    Bandleader and composer.
  • Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches
    Commentary and interviews from musician and writer Hank Michael Shteamer
  • Destination Out
    Music and commentary on the best of past and present outside jazz.
  • Dial “M” for Musicology
    A blog discussing all things musicological—check out the “hipster” and “jazz” categories in particular.
  • Do the Math
    Blog for the Bad Plus, featuring Ethan Iverson’s often provocative and interesting commentary and interviews.
  • Funky16Corners
    Online soul patrol.
  • Jazz Beyond Jazz
    Jazz writer Howard Mandel’s musings on matters musical and otherwise.
  • Jazz Lives
    Ruminations on modern and classic jazz from writer Michael Steinman.
  • Jazz.com
    Jazz writer Ted Gioia’s ambitious, comprehensive undertaking, featuring 30 contributors and a balance of modern and classic jazz information.
  • JazzWax
    An outstanding jazz blog from New York City writer Marc Myers, often devoted to a “hidden history” of jazz, featuring interviews and in-depth profiles
  • Larry Kart
    Musings from America’s leading jazz critic (in this site’s humble opinion) and author of JAZZ IN SEARCH OF ITSELF. Click on “options” to see all posts.
  • Living With Music
    V. Hofmann’s blog for music collectors.
  • Rifftides
    The blog of jazz writer and Paul Desmond biographer Doug Ramsey, offering observations on jazz and other cultural matters.
  • SloaneView
    Jazz singer Carol Sloane’s remembrances, stories, and otherwise from a 50-year jazz career.
  • Song With Orange
    Commentary from musician & L.A. jazz radio DJ Kellen Yamanaka.
  • Talkin’ Jazz
    Blog for the historical-profile radio program.
  • Terry Teachout
    Blogging on all things cultural. Includes a great compendium of jazz video links.
  • Ubu Roi
    Mr. Roi is always listening to interesting music.

• Carriage: Where You Can Hear Night Lights

  • Blue Lake Public Radio-Michigan
    Sunday at 10 p.m. EST
  • DZFE-Manila, Phillippines
    Thursday at 9 p.m. PHT (beginning June 5)
  • KCCK-Cedar Rapids, IA
    Monday at 5 a.m. CDT
  • KMBH-Brownsville and McAllen, TX
    Sunday at 10 p.m. CDT
  • KMHD-Portland, OR
    Monday at 8 p.m. PDT
  • KOSU-Oklahoma Public Radio
    Saturday at 11 p.m. CDT
  • KPBX-Spokane, WA
    Wednesday at 11 p.m. PDT
  • WFIU-Bloomington, IN
    Saturday at 11 p.m. EST
  • WNIN-Evansville, IN
    Saturday at 9 p.m. Central Time
  • WUIS-Prairie Star Campus Radio, Springfield, IL
    Tuesday at 8 p.m. CDT
  • WVAS-Montgomery, AL
    Wednesday at 7 p.m. CDT

• Copacetic

  • Allen Lowe
    Musician & author of jazz history THAT DEVLIN’ TUNE.
  • Barak Weiss
    Night Lights’ Middle Eastern jazz connection.
  • Bill Barton
    Jazz DJ and host of KBCS-Bellevue/Seattle’s adventurous late-night program “Bright Moments”
  • Bill Kirchner
    Jazz musician, composer, educator, historian and monthly host of “Jazz From the Archives” on WBGO.
  • Chris Albertson
    A two-time Grammy winner, Bessie Smith biographer, and veteran jazz producer and writer, Chris listens to Night Lights from his digs in New York City and is currently at work on an autobiography.
  • David Baker
    The Dean of Jazz. Trombonist, cellist, composer, and multiple-multiple award winner.
  • Dick Bishop
    Creator and longtime host of WFIU’s jazz-and-American-popular-song program Afterglow. Class, panache, great taste… just a few possible word choices for the Wikipedia entry that somebody should write about Dick.
  • Frank Kimbrough
    Pianist and co-founder of the Herbie Nichols Project (he can be heard on the Night Lights show “Strange City”)
  • Jeremy Allen
    Bassist extraordinaire.
  • Joe Bourne
    Host of the WFIU jazz programs “Just You and Me” and “The Big Bands.”
  • Ken Lovell
    Associate Director of the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Laughing Planet Cafe/Soma Coffeehouse
    Provides health-food burritos and coffee to traveling musicians and Bloomington residents, as well as production support for Night Lights.
  • Lazaro Vega
    Jazz DJ for Michigan’s Blue Lake Public Radio
  • Michael McGerr
    An American historian and Indiana University professor, Michael also possesses an expertise and passion for jazz and other forms of popular music. You can hear him in the previous WFIU documentaries “Bix Beiderbecke: Never the Same Way Twice” and “Jump fo
  • Nate Dorward
    A jazz writer, blogger, and Night Lights listener from the north.
  • Organissimo
    The band that runs the forum: a mighty organ trio from Michigan, featuring Jim Alfredson on Hammond B-3, Joe Gloss on guitar, and Randy Marsh on drums. Smoking permitted whenever these guys play…by necessity.
  • Ryan J. Bruce
    General manager of community radio station KXCI in Tucson, Arizona.
  • Ted O’Reilly
    Longtime Canadian jazz DJ, producer, and advocate.

• Cultural

  • Dead Caulfields
    Excellent site devoted to the fiction of J.D. Salinger.
  • Hometown
    Musician and writer Tom Roznowski’s epic series reconstructing 1920s and 30s Terre Haute, Indiana. More than 450 three-minute episodes aired between 1995 and 2004, and the program continues in reruns Saturday evenings at 8 on WFIU.
  • Jerry Jazz Musician
    Essays, interviews, and more about jazz and American civilization.
  • Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
    Provides a bevy of links to articles about the decade.
  • Raintree County
    A site devoted to Indiana author Ross Lockridge Jr. (1914-1948) and his novel RAINTREE COUNTY.
  • Sound Opinions
    Rock ‘n roll talk straight outta Chicago
  • Space Age Pop
    Virtual encyclopedia of offbeat jazz, exotica, lounge/weird cocktail, and more.
  • This American Life
    The ever-popular WBEZ radio show.
  • Who Walk in Brooklyn
    For those who wish to know where it is.
  • Woody Haut
    Cultural history blog with an emphasis on noir fiction and films. By the author of PULP CULTURE and NEON NOIR.

• Jazz Notes

  • All About Jazz
    A great jazz website with reviews, interviews, and numerous other valuable resources.
  • behearer.com
    A wiki discography devoted to jazz from the 1970-1990 era.
  • Brilliant Corners
    The only journal in the world that focuses on jazz-related literature, edited by Indiana University Ph.D Sascha Feinstein (co-editor of The Jazz Poetry Anthology and its sequel, The Second Set).
  • Downbeat
    Long-running jazz magazine of note.
  • Final Chorus
    Jazz writer Nat Hentoff’s JazzTimes column.
  • Hardbop Homepage
    A site devoted to one of the most prominent styles in 1950s and 1960s jazz.
  • Jazzcorner Speakeasy
    Another lively and thought-provoking jazz forum that leans more towards modern jazz and improv.
  • Jazzhouse.org
  • JazzStandards.com
    Background on the writers, performers and history of American popular song
  • JazzTimes
    Website for the magazine.
  • Jerry Jazz Musician
    Essays, interviews, and more about jazz and American civilization.
  • Michael Fitzgerald’s Jazz Research Page
    Home page for jazz researcher and author (RAT RACE BLUES, a biography of Gigi Gryce) Michael Fitzgerald. A bevy of discographies, biographies, and other fascinating jazz data, including an article on the Lenox School of Jazz in Massachusetts, a highly inf
  • Noal Cohen’s Jazz History Website
    Excellent features on the hardbop era and some of its most interesting performers, from the co-author of RAT RACE BLUES.
  • NPR Jazz and Blues
    NPR’s new multimedia site, featuring interviews, profiles, streams and much more
  • Organissimo
    One of the best jazz discussion groups on the Web, tending to focus on 1950s and 1960s jazz.
  • The Blindman’s Blues Forum
    A great blues forum with a recently-added discussion area for jazz.
  • Today in Jazz
    Daily recap of musician birthdays and significant dates in jazz history.

• Musicians

  • Andrew Hill
  • Anita O’Day
  • Benny Carter
  • Betty Carter
  • Bill Evans
  • Billie Holiday
  • Billy Taylor
  • Bob Brookmeyer
  • Bobby Hutcherson
  • Bud Powell
  • Bud Shank
  • Cannonball Adderley
  • Carla Bley
  • Carmen McRae
  • Cecil Taylor
  • Cedar Walton
  • Charles Lloyd
  • Charles Mingus
  • Charlie Parker
  • Dave Brubeck
  • David Amram
  • Dexter Gordon
  • Don Ellis
  • Duke Ellington
  • Emily Remler
  • Eric Dolphy
  • Fats Navarro
  • Freddie Hubbard
  • George Coleman
  • George Russell
  • Gerry Mulligan
  • Gigi Gryce
  • Gil Evans
  • Henry Grimes
  • Herbie Hancock
  • Herbie Nichols Project
  • Horace Silver
  • Horace Tapscott
  • Jack DeJohnette
  • Jackie Paris
  • Joe Maini
  • John Coltrane
  • John Handy
  • Keith Jarrett
  • Kenny Burrell
  • Lennie Tristano
  • Mary Lou Williams
  • Mary Osborne
  • Max Roach
  • McCoy Tyner
  • Miles Davis
  • Nat King Cole
  • Nina Simone
  • Ornette Coleman
  • Paul Bley
  • Paul Desmond
  • Peggy Lee
  • Ran Blake
  • Richard Davis
  • Ron Carter
  • Scott La Faro
  • Sheila Jordan
  • Slide Hampton
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Sun Ra
  • Tony Williams
  • Wardell Gray
  • Warne Marsh
  • Wayne Shorter
  • Wes Montgomery
  • Woody Shaw

• Record Stores & Labels

  • Dusty Groove America
    Lots of great, hard-to-find music.
  • Early Records
    Jazz CDs and LPs from Japan. Hiroshi Tanno is the man!
  • Hep
  • Jazz Record Mart
    Midwestern mecca for jazz lovers.
  • Landlocked Music
    Bloomington’s coolest record store.
  • Mosaic Records
    A Stamford, Connecticut-based re-issue label that for the past 20 years has been producing comprehensive collections of both famous and lesser-known historical jazz artists (most sets fall between 1925-1975, though they are now venturing into 1980s jazz a
  • Nessa Records
    Legendary jazz label run by Chuck Nessa.
  • Stereo Jack’s
    Jack Woker’s record shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some day we’re going to make the pilgrimage…
  • Storyville Records

• Regional Jazz Sites

  • Club Kaycee
    Provides a history of Kansas City jazz.
  • Detroit Music History
    Created in part by Lars Bjorn & Jim Gallert, the authors of BEFORE MOTOWN, a seminal book about the 1920-1960 Detroit jazz scene.
  • Jazz Institute of Chicago
    Offering a wealth of information about jazz in the Windy City and beyond.
  • Jazzed in Cleveland
    Cleveland DJ Joe Mosbrook’s ongoing history of Cleveland jazz.
  • Leimert Park
    Los Angeles community jazz in the post-Central Avenue era.
  • New England Jazz History
    Bluebloods hot and cool blowin’ in from the Northeast
  • Starr-Gennett
    Website for the Starr-Gennett Foundation, devoted to preserving the legacy and history of Indiana’s most famous jazz label.

• Visual

  • Dave Kehr
    Reports from the lost continent of Cinephilia.
  • Duncan Schiedt
    World-renowned images from the Indiana jazz writer and photographer.
  • Golden Age of Jazz
    Features the classic jazz photography of William Gottlieb.
  • Great Day in Harlem
    A site dedicated to Art Kane’s famous 1958 photograph.
  • Jazz on Film
    David Meeker’s jazz filmography, now online, with listings for 1,000 jazz and blues musicians in more than 14,000 cinema, television, and video productions.
  • Mark Sheldon
    Indianapolis-based jazz photographer.
  • Vintage Vanguard
    Images of original Blue Note album covers.
  • WFIU Movie Reviews With Peter Noble-Kuchera
    A weekly podcast of cinematic insights from WFIU’s nationally-recognized film critic

• WFIU Jazz Shows & Specials

  • Afterglow
    A two-hour weekly program of jazz, ballads, and American popular song.
  • Bix Beiderbecke: Never the Same Way Twice
    A one-hour documentary I produced for WFIU that aired on the eve of the trumpeter’s 100th birthday. Includes interviews with Beiderbecke biographer Richard Sudhalter, cultural historian Michael McGerr, and trumpeter Pat Harbison.
  • Duke Ellington’s Jump for Joy
    “Jump for Joy: Duke Ellington’s Celebratory Musical,” a documentary I produced for WFIU about Ellington’s satirical, civil-rights-oriented 1941 production, staged in Hollywood with the assistance of movieland luminaries such as Orson Welles, Charlie Chapl
  • Hoagy!
    In November 1999 WFIU broadcast a one-hour documentary about the life and music of Bloomington-born songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. The program was written, produced, and hosted by Tom Roznowski (creator of the series Hometown) and featured interviews with C
  • Just You and Me
    Our long-running, popular weekday afternoon jazz program, hosted by Joe Bourne.
  • The Big Bands
    Hosted Friday nights at 9 by WFIU’s Joe Bourne.