A Cool Christmas
Come along for a jazz sleigh ride this week on Night Lights, with music from Shirley Horn, Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, and more.
View ArticleBest Historical Releases and Reissues of 2010
A look back at musical look-backs from the past year.
View ArticleChick Webb And Ella Fitzgerald Mosaic Set On The Way
A hard-swinging big band paired with a jazz legend in the making.
View ArticleThe Jazz Standards, With Ted Gioia
Jazz historian Ted Gioia joins Night Lights this week to talk about his latest book.
View Article1957, Four Portraits In Jazz: Blakey, Coltrane, Fuller, Rollins
A prolific and diverse year for Art Blakey; a turnaround for John Coltrane; continuing momentum for Sonny Rollins; and an astonishing debut for Curtis Fuller.
View ArticleJazz From Storyville
Throughout the 1950s jazz promoter George Wein ran a Boston nightclub that showcased some of the music’s most notable performers.
View ArticleElla ’57: Ella Fitzgerald Flies High
In 1957 singer Ella Fitzgerald recorded close to one hundred tracks as her career continued to soar in the wake of signing with Norman Granz’s Verve label.
View ArticleJazz His Way: Frank Sinatra
One of the 20th century's most iconic performers crossed musical paths with artists such as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald.
View ArticleBest Historical Jazz Releases 2017
Jazz blasts from the past, newly-discovered, rarely-heard, and reissued.
View ArticleFour And More: The Year In Jazz, 1964
From Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder" to John Coltrane's A LOVE SUPREME, from the impact of the Beatles to the avant-garde's October revolution, a notable year.
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