French culture in the postwar years was strongly influenced by both jazz and the growing American genre of film noir.By Night Lights Classic Jazz

"Serious jazz musicians are into their music like it's a religion," says Sisto.By Night Lights Classic Jazz

Lalo Schifrin is best known for his “Mission: Impossible” theme and numerous other film scores, but the pianist and composer first emerged from mid-20th century Argentina as a jazz artist, working with Dizzy Gillespie and recording under his own name as well.By Night Lights Classic Jazz

As the 1960s neared to a close, the jazz world continued to absorb the cultural upheavals of a volatile decade.By Night Lights Classic Jazz

Jazzing Broadway songs, scoring movies, conducting classical music: Andre Previn could do it all before he'd even turned 30.By Night Lights Classic Jazz

A career-spanning musical tribute from WFIU's afternoon jazz program "Just You And Me."By Night Lights Classic Jazz

Pianist Lennie Tristano was a singular and charismatic modernist and mentor whose methods helped point the way for the rise of jazz education.By Night Lights Classic Jazz

Jazz critic Nate Chinen talks about his recent book "Playing Changes: Jazz For The New Century," and we hear music from some of the artists discussed as well.By Night Lights Classic Jazz

As television rocketed into the entertainment culture of mid-20th-century America, musicians and composers, many of them with jazz backgrounds, were called upon to write themes and cues for the wide variety of programs that populated the airwaves.By Night Lights Classic Jazz