Posted in Shows on Apr 16th, 2005
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…
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Posted in Shows on Oct 2nd, 2004
This week on Night Lights we usher in October with “‘Tis Autumn,” a show devoted to jazz songs and instrumentals about the fall. In addition to the classic Nat King Cole recording of the program’s title track, we’ll hear Billy Eckstine’s 1952 rendition of “Early Autumn” (derived from Ralph Burns’ “Summer Sequence” written for Woody Herman’s big band…
Posted in Shows on Jul 17th, 2004
Billie Holiday died in New York City at 3 a.m. on Friday, July 17, 1959–45 years to the day of this broadcast. In addition to Holiday’s music–”Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me,” from her little-known last album BILLIE HOLIDAY (recorded after LADY IN SATIN), “This Year’s Kisses” (with Lester Young), the vibrant early side “Life Begins When You’re in Love,” a moodier & spookier alternate take of her Decca recording “No More,” and other…
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