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…
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