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Night Lights is a weekly one-hour radio program of classic jazz hosted by David Brent Johnson and produced by WFIU Public Radio. Night Lights airs on WFIU HD1 Saturday at 11:05 p.m.

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12.31.2007 – When Mood Jazz Was Cool: Moodsville 2
12.26.2007 – Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers: Class of ‘57
12.17.2007 – The Night Before Christmas: Holiday Jazz
12.11.2007 – After the Vanguard: the Return of Bill Evans
12.03.2007 – Donald Byrd: the Hardbop Years
11.26.2007 – Early Ellis: Don Ellis at the Dawn of the 1960s
11.19.2007 – Dick and Kiz Harp: Down at the 90th Floor
11.12.2007 – Conover’s Coming Over: Willis Conover and Jazz at the Voice of America
10.29.2007 – Charles Tolliver on Strata East in the Early 1970s
10.22.2007 – Second Magic City: Sun Ra in Chicago
10.08.2007 – Portrait of Max: Max Roach, 1924-2007
10.01.2007 – Side Monk: Thelonious Monk As Sideman
09.24.2007 – East Meets West: Ahmed Abdul-Malik and World Jazz
09.17.2007 – Trane ‘57: John Coltrane’s Pivotal Year in Jazz
09.10.2007 – The Connection: the Living Theater and Hardbop Jazz
09.03.2007 – The Incomplete Sonny Berman
08.27.2007 – Jazz and Jack Kerouac
08.20.2007 – “I Want to Live!”
08.13.2007 – The Duke Pearson Songbook
08.06.2007 – The King at Midpoint: Benny Carter
07.30.2007 – Satchmo, Take Two: Louis Armstrong at the Movies
07.15.2007 – When Betty Met the Duke: Betty Roche
07.09.2007 – Paris Noir: African-American Jazz Musicians in France
07.03.2007 – Late Pee Wee: Pee Wee Russell in the 1960s
06.26.2007 – The Nocturne Records Story
06.23.2007 – Perfectly Frank: Sinatra’s Small-Group Jazz Recordings
06.16.2007 – Nellie Lutcher’s Real Gone Rhythm
06.09.2007 – Andrew!
06.02.2007 – Full Nelson: Oliver Nelson’s 1960s Big-Band Recordings
05.26.2007 – The James Dean Story
05.19.2007 – Jivin’ With the DJs: Jazz Tributes
05.12.2007 – Jackie McLean and Lee Morgan: the Dynamic Hardbop Duo
05.05.2007 – Sonny Rollins: Live in London
04.28.2007 – Bop! Go the Big Bands
04.21.2007 – Slide at 75: Slide Hampton
04.14.2007 – Later: Bobby Hutcherson in the Mid-1970s
04.07.2007 – Jazz, Spiritually Speaking
03.31.2007 – Emily Remler: a Musical Remembrance
03.24.2007 – Here Comes the Sun: Nina Simone on RCA
03.17.2007 – The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
03.10.2007 – Miss Peggy Lee, Songwriter
03.03.2007 – Alice Coltrane, Ascending
02.24.2007 – One More You Wrote Through Us: Horace Tapscott
02.17.2007 – Come On Down to Central Avenue
02.10.2007 – Soulful Days: the Cal Massey Songbook
02.03.2007 – We Shall Overcome: Civil-Rights Jazz
01.27.2007 – Return to Blue Note: Tony Williams in the Late 1980s
01.20.2007 – A Few Words About Jazz
01.13.2007 – The Best Tenor You Never Heard: J.R. Monterose
01.06.2007 – Resolution: Jazz From Rehab