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Nick checks out the many and varied ways jazz musicians are inspired by light, including starlight, moonlight, and twilight.
For the second part of the show, including tracks by Booker Little, Sarah Vaughan, and Natalie Cole, go here!
MUSIC DETAILS:
| # | Artist: | Song: | Composer: | Album | Label: | Duration: |
| 1 | Chet Baker | Stella by Starlight | Young | The Best Of Chet Baker Plays | Pacific Jazz | 03:56 |
| 2 | Wynton Kelly | Moonlight in Vermont | Blackburn / Suessdorf | Piano Interpretations | Blue Note | 03:27 |
| 3 | Duke Ellington | I Like the Sunrise | Ellington | Liberian Suite | Columbia | 04:31 |
| 4 | Glenn Miller | Moonlight Serenade | Miller | Memorial 1944-1969 | RCA Victor | 03:24 |
| 5 | Christine Jensen | Dancing Sunlight | C Jensen | Treelines | Justin Time | 11:19 |
| 6 | Alice Coltrane | Translinear Light | Alice Coltrane | Translinear Light | Impulse! | 09:50 |
| 7 | Thelonious Monk | Round Lights | Monk | Alone in San Francisco | Riverside | 03:37 |
| 8 | Auckland Jazz Orchestra | Auckland Harbour Suite IV: Harbour Lights | Booth | East of the Sun | AJO | 05:01 |
| 9 | Sonny Clark Trio | Softly as in a Morning Sunrise | Hammerstein / Romberg | Sonny Clark Trio | Blue Note | 06:41 |
