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Iverson's actually not in the Bad Plus anymore. Orrin Evans has replaced him.

Gary Sanchez is Mr. August. Gary Sanchez in August And that article was posted before last night's game, in which Sanchez went 2-5 with another homer and three RBIs. Too much to hope that Aaron Judge is finally snapping out of his post-All Star Game slump as well? I don't think NY will catch Boston, but I'm starting to feel better about at least landing the wild-card spot. (And if NY finds itself in a WC one-off, please please please start Luis Severino!)

Bon anniversaire, Monsieur Solal, from Night Lights! Caravan: Martial Solal, The Early Years

Night Lights anticipated pianist Martial Solal's 90th birthday today with a program last week devoted to his 1950s and early 60s recordings: Caravan: Martial Solal, The Early Years Bon anniversaire, Monsieur Solal!

Posting these two previous Night Lights programs today in honor of what would have been the pianist, composer and arranger's 85th birthday: The Duke Pearson Songbook Now Hear This: Duke Pearson's Big Band

Has anybody on the board picked up the 2015 8-CD anthology of Peterson's MPS recordings? I have the old 4-CD version of this, plus a couple of his other MPS recordings... while I enjoy them a great deal, not sure I'm ready to bite on this new version, at least at its current $90 price: Oscar Peterson Exclusively For My Friends 8-CD 2015 version Also not sure how much of an expansion this really is--the original 4-CD set combined 6 LPs, which in this new version have each been given their own disc, and all of disc 7, at least, has been released before, contrary to the description at Amazon.

Last week's Night Lights program, featuring Jaco's recordings from 1976 to 1981, as well as an interview with bassist and Indiana University jazz faculty member Jeremy Allen, is now up for online listening: The Greatest Bass Player In The World: Jaco Pastorius

Either partially or all the way through? For me it's probably the Hank Mobley, the Jackie McLean, and the Andrew Hill (1995 big-box set).

Up for what would have been Benny Carter's 110th birthday today: The King At Midpoint: Benny Carter

Up for what would have been Charlie Haden's 80th birthday today: Ramblin' Man: Charlie Haden

Scott gave me the green light to post info about the Teddy Wilson set and other matters Mosaic: Teddy Wilson set confirmed and Mosaic update

Scott just confirmed this to me a little while ago as well. I'll have a bit more about Mosaic in a Night Lights post going up soon.

Rediscovering the joys of this set (and not alone, judging from some of the posts I see upstream here).

I hope that at least the Teddy Wilson set emerges from the flames. Last time I asked Scott about it (several weeks ago), he sounded optimistic that it would come out.

Working on a Night Lights show about Solal's 1950s/early 60s recordings for his 90th birthday next month and thought that I'd up this thread for any fans of the pianist that might not have come across it already.

Hoping that the Yankees manage to land Sonny Gray today without giving away too much of the farm (so to speak) and that Aaron Judge can get back on track--between his and Matt Holliday's struggles, the 3-4 slots in the Yankee lineup have been a black hole of late: Yankees still pursuing Sonny Gray; Aaron Judge slump

Last week's Night Lights show, devoted to the brief but musically profound career of guitarist Charlie Christian, is now up for online listening: Electrifying: Charlie Christian

Thanks much, glad you enjoyed it! Very fortunate to have Paul Combs on that show.

Last week's Night Lights show on composer and pianist Tadd Dameron, including commentary from Dameron biographer Paul Combs, is up for online listening: Our Delight: The Music Of Tadd Dameron

According to this article, when Judge played football in high school he was 6:7 and weighed 240 pounds. Eight-nine years on, he's still at 6:7 (or 6:8, by some accounts) and weighs 282 pounds. That kind of growth in a well-trained athlete doesn't seem so unusual to me between the ages of 16 and 25. I'd truly be shocked if he were discovered to be juicing. Aside from his much-improved plate discipline this year, my response to Brad's friends would be that home runs are way up this year across all of MLB. Pitchers say the ball's more tightly wound; whatever the case may be, a lot more of them landing in the seats this season.

Aaron Judge snapped out of his power slump last night by hitting a home run that almost went out of Safeco Field: Judge's mammoth home run And D-Rob struck out the side in his first appearance as a returned Yankee. This team may end up at best scrabbling for one of the two wild-card spots, but Judge and Clint Frazier alone are making them a ton of fun to watch.

Upping this today for the anniversary of Clark's birth: Clark's Last Leap: Sonny Clark, 1961-62

Nice clip of Judge playing catch with a fan last night in Seattle: Judge plays catch with fan Great start by Severino, too. And even though he didn't pitch last night, glad to have D-Rob back in the bullpen.

I still miss the menu we had for the first few years of the show, but paging through this way at least allows you to view ten episodes at once: Night Lights shows Simply click "Next page" at the bottom to move back chronologically through archived programs.