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Goin' Up: Space Age Jazz

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Playing your bass in outer space? Getting some Martians to groove to a West Coast beat? Landing your orchestra on a distant planet? This week on Night Lights it's “Space Age Jazz"—the story of how some 1950s and 60s jazz adventurers were influenced by the Cold War race for space, with music from Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Shorty Rogers, Curtis Counce, Mel Torme and more.

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