"Jivin' With the DJs" this week on Night Lights

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This week on Night Lights it's "Jivin' With the DJs." In the 1940s and 1950s the jazz format emerged on radio, and with it a number of colorful, laidback on-air personalities who helped disseminate the new sounds of bebop and early R & B. In response, musicians sometimes wrote and recorded tributes to these DJs. In this program, inspired by the passing of longtime DJ great Oscar Treadwell, we'll hear Charlie Parker's "An Oscar for Treadwell," Allen Eager's "All Night, All Frantic" (for the legendary Symphony Sid Torin), Illinois Jacquet's "Jivin' With Jack the Bellboy," Mary Lou Williams' "In the Purple Grotto" (for Al "Jazzbo" Collins, who pretended to broadcast from a cool, purple-colored underground chamber), and many more. "Jivin' With the DJs" airs Saturday, May 5 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. The program will be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives.

To learn more about Oscar Treadwell, and to hear some of his archived programs, visit his website.

Next week: "The Subterraneans." Jazz and dialogue from the only cinematic adaptation ever made of a Jack Kerouac novel.

Edited May 6, 2006 by ghost of miles

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Up for broadcast in a couple of hours.

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Up for broadcast in a couple of hours.

beuatiful.

how about a willis conover show someday.

nightlights could do a month on dear willis, and his class and fine taste.

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Conover's already on the drawing board, with a title that sort of plays on the theme of "Jivin' With the DJs"--which is now archived.

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Conover's already on the drawing board, with a title that sort of plays on the theme of "Jivin' With the DJs"--which is now archived.

willis the wisp?

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Up for rebroadcast this Saturday evening at 11:05 EST on WFIU, at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN, and at 10 p.m. EST Sunday evening on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program is already archived for online listening under the date of May 6, 2006.

Next week: "The James Dean Story."