Posted in Shows on Nov 17th, 2008
This week on Night Lights it’s “Songs of Peace,” in anticipation of the coming holidays. We’ll hear instrumental themes using “Peace” as a title from John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Horace Silver, as well as Louis Armstrong’s 1970 take on John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance”…
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Posted in Shows on Jul 1st, 2006
A so-called “biopic” of the blues composer W.C. Handy’s life, St. Louis Blues was Cole’s only role as a leading man, and it also included Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, and Eartha Kitt in its all-black cast, along with the underrated Juano Hernandez…
Posted in Shows on Apr 15th, 2006
This Easter weekend on Night Lights it’s “Songs of Peace.” We’ll hear instrumental themes using “Peace” as a title from John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Horace Silver, as well as Louis Armstrong’s 1970 take on John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance,” Bill Evans’ improvisation on Leonard Bernstein’s “Some Other Time” that came to be known as “Peace Piece,” Mahalia Jackson…
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