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 Jazz Notes on Mar 23rd, 2008
The Saint John Coltrane Church in San Francisco has always been a source of curiosity for Trane fans and jazz lovers who’ve heard of it, not to mention less-jazz-and-Trane-inclined skeptics sure to offer a cynical “what’s that all about” smile. (Crazy jazzheads! A friend who lived in San Francisco for a few years told me that he once attended the Sunday-afternoon service and noted many congregants experiencing…
Posted in Jazz Notes on Mar 21st, 2008
Some previous Night Lights shows from the archives, offered as listening suggestions for the coming weekend:
Jazz, Spiritually Speaking. Jazz interpretations of spirituals by John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Grant Green, Louis Armstrong, Archie Shepp with Horace Parlan, and more.
Music for Peace: Mary Lou Williams’ Sacred Jazz. An early Night Lights show…
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…
Posted in Shows on Mar 26th, 2005
Mary Lou Williams, the pianist, arranger, and composer whose career in jazz traced a line all the way from the Kansas City scene of the late 1920s through the swing era, bop, the 1950s jazz expatriate community, and an academic job at Duke in the late 1970s, also helped to pioneer sacred jazz in…
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