"Moodsville 1" on Night Lights tonight

[ghost of miles]

This week on Night Lights it’s “Moodsville 1.” In 1960 Prestige’s Bob Weinstock launched a new series of records called Moodsville, as a response to the popularity of 1950s “mood music” albums, ushered in to a large extent by Jackie Gleason’s Capitol LPs featuring trumpeter Bobby Hackett. Prestige attempted to stake a somewhat higher aesthetic ground, stating, “We at Prestige feel that there is room for honest jazz performances of ballads wherein the musical integrity of the artist is maintained and at the same time the original beauty and feeling of the ballad is not lost.” What emerged was a sort of thinking-man’s jazz-ballad alternative, or jazz-for-jazz-loving-lovers. We’ll hear music from the very first Moodsville record, featuring pianist Red Garland and tenor saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, as well as music from Moodsville LPs by Kenny Burrell, Coleman Hawkins, and Oliver Nelson. “Moodsville 1” airs Saturday, Oct. 29 at 11:05 p.m. (9:05 West Coast time, 12:05 a.m. East Coast time) on WFIU. It will be posted in the Night Lights archives by Monday afternoon.

Special Organissimo note: listen for Dan Gould and Chris Albertson references in this program and win a free recycled Organissimo shipping package!

Next week: the first of our two annual fund-drive programs. More details soon!

Edited December 29, 2007 by ghost of miles

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Up for broadcast in several minutes.

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"Moodsville 1" is now archived. "Moodsville 2," featuring albums from Shirley Scott, Lem Winchester, Clark Terry, and Lucky Thompson, will air on Nov. 26 (the Saturday after Thanksgiving).

Edited December 29, 2007 by ghost of miles

[montg]

Great show! Good to hear Lockjaw

[Brad]

Looking forward to listening to this. Maybe you should have Dan and Chuck co host a show. Might be interesting

[ghost of miles]

Actually, kidding aside, I'm hoping/planning to do a program called "The Nessa Records Story." Just gotta drive back up to Michigan one of these days and interview Mr. Nessa in his waycool lair.

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Moodsville 1, already archived for online listening, will re-air this evening at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville and Sunday evening at 10 p.m. EST on Blue Lake Public Radio.