Night Lights Classic Jazz Radio Program and Jazz Blog with David Brent Johnson

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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Jazz Flower Power: the Charles Lloyd Quartet

Charles Lloyd QuartetIn the mid-1960s, as rock music continued its powerful ascent while jazz seemed to split into two camps of what one journalist tagged “heard-it-all-before or never-want-to-hear-it-again,” tenor saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd formed a quartet that found enthusiastic favor with young rock audiences and gave partial inspiration for the jazz fusion styles that Miles Davis and others would begin to explore as the decade ended. Lloyd had…

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Let Freedom Ring

McLean Let Freedom RingNight Lights‘ pilot program that aired on the eve of 2004’s July 4th holiday, featuring music from Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, Avery Parrish, Nina Simone…

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