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.
In the mid-to-late 1940s, as the sound of swing gave way to the rise of bebop, popular bandleaders found themselves trying to incorporate the new music’s more complex rhythms and harmonies into their dance-orchestra styles. Bebop was just one of several challenges the big bands faced after the end of World War II, but it inspired…
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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