Cold War Jazz From The Archives

By David Johnson

Published September 11, 2019 at 3:26 PM EDT

If you like or are interested in this week's Night Lights program, Jazz Impressions of Brubeck, you might want to check out these shows from the Night Lights archives:

Conover's Coming Over: Willis Conover and Jazz at the Voice of America tells the story of how a jazz DJ helped win the Cold War

Jazz Goes to the Cold War is an in-depth look at the international jazz tours that the U.S. State Department sponsored in the late 1950s and the 1960s by artists such as Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington, and a conversation about some of the tensions that resulted from the ongoing civil-rights movement back in America.