Posted in Shows on Dec 31st, 2007
On this edition of Night Lights it’s “Moodsville 2,” a followup to our October program on Prestige Records’ early-1960s series that was a sort of “jazz-ballads-for-thinking-lovers” concept. This show features albums from vibraphonist Lem Winchester, a policeman-turned-musician who died in a…
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Posted in Shows on Nov 26th, 2005
On this edition of Night Lights it’s “Moodsville 2,” a followup to our October program on Prestige Records’ early-1960s series that was a sort of “jazz-ballads-for-thinking-lovers” concept. This show features albums from vibraphonist Lem Winchester, a policeman-turned-musician who died in…
Posted in Shows on Oct 29th, 2005
In 1960 Prestige’s Bob Weinstock launched a new series of records called Moodsville, as a response to the popularity of 1950s “mood music” albums, ushered in to a large extent by Jackie Gleason’s Capitol LPs featuring trumpeter Bobby Hackett. Prestige attempted to stake a somewhat higher aesthetic ground…
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