Posted in Shows on Jun 18th, 2005
This 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…
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Posted in Shows on Dec 18th, 2004
The first-ever Night Lights Christmas program features music from Booker Ervin (”White Christmas” from his 1966 album Solid Structure), Ahmad Jamal (”Snowfall,” written by Terre Haute, Indiana native Claude Thornhill), Sonny Rollins (”Winter Wonderland”), Babs Gonzalez (”Bebop Santa Claus”), Bill Evans (a rare and amusing vocal take…
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Posted in Shows on Oct 30th, 2004
“Strange Enchantment” is a program of Halloween-related jazz, including music from Duke Ellington (”Stalking Monster”), Bill Evans (”Witchcraft”), Kay Starr (”The Headless Horseman”), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (”Haunted Feelings”)and a very young Gil Evans with Skinny Ennis (”Strange Enchantment”) as well as tracks from…
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