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Last of the Lions: Gerald Wilson

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2008-09-01 12:40:29 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...musicians such as trumpeter Snooky Young and trombonist Melba Liston , and an all-star 1960s West Coast unit that highlighted soloists such as tenor saxophonist Harold Land and guitarist Joe Pass . Both bands exemplify the Wilson soundlayered, harmonically rich, and drawing on influences that range from Duke Ellington and 20th-century...
 
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Night Lights on Labor DayChicago and Elsewhere

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2008-08-31 03:00:22 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
WDCB , one of two stations in the Chicago area that continue to broadcast jazz, is airing three Night Lights programs in a row on Labor Day Monday evening, from 7 to 10 p.m. Central Time Cats Who Swing and Sing: Women Singer-Pianists of the 1940s and 50s , 1959: Jazzs Vintage Year , and Porgy and Bess: the 1950s Jazz Revival . KUNV-Las Vegas...
 
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When Sonny Slayed the Dragon

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2008-08-30 03:22:01 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...musician and jazz bulletin-board poster extraordinaire Jim Sangrey for the tip on this Chicago Reader article Share This
 
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The Horace Silver Songbook

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2008-08-25 04:05:36 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
Jazz pianist Horace Silver , a founding father of hardbop and soul jazz and one of the most renowned figures of the post-World War II jazz scene, turns 80 on September 2, 2008. Many of his compositions, such as Opus de Funk, The Preacher, Nicas Dream, and Peace have become jazz standards heard frequently today. The Horace Silver Songbook...
 
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Songs for Some Jazz Fathers: Shorter, Silver and Wilson

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2008-08-20 02:51:10 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...musical legacies upon which they continue to build. Imagine jazz history without Horace Silvers compositional kickstarts for hardbop, or without Wayne Shorters contributions to Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis second great quintet (not to mention Weather Report). And can you name any other bandleader who led successful orchestras...
 
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The Wayne Shorter Songbook

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2008-08-18 03:12:19 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...musician and personality, Shorter was once labeled by jazz critic Larry Kart as one of the most dangerous players to ever pick up a horna man whose solos were described by various critics as quietly maniacal and clinically precise, full of abrupt changes of mood and wild satanic humor. Those qualities carried over into Shorters compositions,...
 
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Away From the Spaceways: John Gilmore

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2008-08-11 04:01:41 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...musical relationship Watch John Gilmore performing with Art Blakey and Lee Morgan in 1965 Air date: August 16, 2008 Original broadcast date: October 21, 2006 Share This
 
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Play It in the Closet: the Return Farewell of J.D. Salinger

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2008-08-07 04:45:56 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
43 years ago J.D. Salinger, the writer who rose to cult status in the 1950s and early 1960s on the strength of his novel The Catcher in the Rye and his stories about the talented but troubled Glass family , as well as his fervent desire for privacy, bade farewell to the published literary life with a long piece of fiction titled Hapworth 16,...
 
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Jazz News of Note

2008-08-05 04:01:12 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
 
...musical associate of the late Johnny Griffin, has written a remembrance of the saxophonist The new issue of WaxPoetics includes a great article on Herbie Hancocks early-1970s Warner Brothers era. Also check out the pieces on Sam Rivers (did you know that he recorded some jam sessions with Jimi Hendrix?) and Lalo Schifrin. (Content not...
 
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On a Turquoise Cloud: Duke Ellington After the War, 1945-47

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2008-08-04 04:02:38 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...musical vision On a Turquoise Cloud features little-known mid-late 1940s Ellington compositions such as Magenta Haze, Lady of the Lavender Mist, and Air-Conditioned Jungle, as well as two sides from his short 1946 stay on the Musicraft label, a Carnegie Hall concert performance of the atonal/stride-piano The Clothed Woman, I Like the Sunrise...
 
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