Turn Out The Stars III: More Jazz Elegies

By David Johnson

Published September 11, 2019 at 3:23 PM EDT

This Memorial Day weekend Night Lights show pays tribute to departed musicians with another program of jazz elegies. Turn Out the Stars V. III includes musical remembrances of

Louis Armstrong

John Coltrane

Cannonball Adderley

Wes Montgomery

and more. Wayne Shorter, who wrote the celebrated "Lester Left Town" for Lester Young in 1959, checked in eight years later as a member of Miles Davis' quintet with "Sweetpea," a tune penned for composer and Duke Ellington cohort, Billy Strayhorn. There's even a short piece that trumpeter Kenny Dorham wrote for himself, "Dorham's Epitaph."

Check out the previous Night Lights jazz-elegies programs, Turn Out the Starsand Turn Out the Stars II.

Cannonball

Watch Weather Report perform "Cannonball," Joe Zawinul's tribute to alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley:

Night Lights Classic Jazz