Q: Who the HECK is DJ Nighttrain?

A: Well, here’s a brief bio!

I was born in Houston, Texas and lived there most of my life.  DJ Nighttrain is a remixer, producer, MC and DJ.  I touched my 1st one’s and two’s in 1988

after after arriving in Lakenheath, England.  My roommate was the now famous DJ Kevy Kev from the East.  Quickly I learned how to mix, dubbed DJ E-Love

and soon there after I began DJ’ing the NCO club and local UK hot spots.  I have had the pleasure of twisting the hits in Texas, Illinois before I landed in

California.  I put the ones and two away sometime in the 90′s to travel and MC with celebrities from the hit TV Show “In Living Color,” and others.  I have

worked with radio stations like Cool 101, brief stint with 102.5 until I picked back producing and mixing music for athletes and others.  I abandoned the

vinyl and moved to 100% digital music and the Dj Nighttrain was born.

Q: Can you DJ at our shindig??

A: Sure, why not. Drop a line to dj.nighttrain@me.com and see if I’m around.I think I have the “chicken dance” somewhere around here!!!

Q: What the HECK is a NIGHTTRAIN anyway?

A:“Night Train” is a twelve bar blues instrumental standard first recorded by Jimmy Forrest in 1951.

“Night Train” has a long and complicated history. The piece’s opening riff was first recorded in 1940 by a small group led by Duke Ellington sideman Johnny Hodges under the title

“That’s the Blues, Old Man”.

• “Night Train” is played by the band at the high school dance in Back to the Future.
• “Night Train” is played in the bar fight scene in Rush Hour.
• “Night Train” is played during a club scene towards the end of Raging Bull.
• “Night Train” is featured on the soundtrack album to Quadrophenia (1979)
• James Brown & The Famous Flames perform an explosive performance of “Night Train” in their segment of the concert film The T.A.M.I. Show.
• “Night Train” is played at the beginning of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Badda-Bing Badda-Bang“.
• Night Train also features in soundtrack of Tom Hanks starring movie Apollo 13
• Night train, a train with sleeping cars

Albums

• Night Train (album), an album by the Oscar Peterson Trio
• Night Train (EP), an EP by Keane
• Night Train, an album by Amina Figarova
• Night Train, an album by Brown Intentions, featuring Down AKA Kilo

Songs

• “Night Train” (composition), a blues instrumental standard
• “Night Train” (Visage song)
• “Nightrain“, a song by Guns N’ Roses
• “Night Train”, a song by Amos Lee from Supply and Demand
• “Night Train”, a song by The Bouncing Souls from Anchors Aweigh
• “Nighttrain”, a song by Public Enemy from Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
• “Night Train”, a song by Rickie Lee Jones from Rickie Lee Jones
• “Night Train”, a song by Scatman John from Take Your Time
• “Night Train”, a song by Steve Winwood from Arc of a Diver
• “Night Train”, a song by Mathew Ebel cover of Guns N’ Roses song