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May 19, 2007
“Jivin' With the DJs"
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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 chamber), and many more. “Jivin’ With the DJs” airs Saturday, May 19 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU. You can learn more about Oscar Treadwell and listen to some of his archived broadcasts here. Note to south-central Indiana listeners: the Bloomington street Treadwell Lane is indeed named after the jazz DJ!