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Here are some of the sides being included: Teddy Wilson, June 1, 1937, two takes of "I've Found a New Baby" Benny Goodman, March 9, 1983, "Ti-Pi-Tin" The aforementioned Una Mae Carlisle, Sammie Price, and Dickie Wells sessions. The entire Jones-Smith Inc. session, including alternate takes of "Evenin'," "Boogie Woogie," and "Oh, Lady Be Good." (So just a bit of overlap with the previous Basie-Young Mosaic, but only the four masters from this session.) It's basically all of the Basie-Young Decca sides, plus recordings by Lester Young between 1936 and 1947 on labels that are currently owned by Universal Music. No Savoy sides. The Sony material will all be on a single disc at the end of the set.

Jill Lepore's book on Wonder Woman, an anthology of essays about Miles Davis and American culture, Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, and Oxford's Very Short Introductions to Buddhism and modernism.

Another recent Night Lights show up for online listening, devoted to Ellington's musical celebrations of black culture and identity in the 1930s and 40s: Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington's Early Black-Pride Music

With the MLB trading deadline coming up, any moves you'd like to see your favorite team execute? Or not execute? (In my case, dearly hoping that NY does not give away Aaron Judge or Luis Severino. Pretty much hoping, in fact, that they make no major moves whatsoever.)

Pretty sure all Keynote sides on which Lester appeared will be included. I just sent a followup note asking about the Savoy sides (per jazztrain's remark), and what the Goodman sides specifically would be... will post once I hear back. There will be a single disc of Sony-licensed material. In addition to having so many of Young's best recordings gathered in a single set, I'm really looking forward to reading Loren Schoenberg's notes for this... he did a great job (as he always does) with Mosaic's last Prez outing.

Anybody mention Mickey Tucker yet? And I'll second Joe on Hod O'Brien.

Ejp, no duplication with the previous Mosaic Basie-Prez set.

I've posted the details on the Night Lights site: 8-CD set of Lester Young from Mosaic

We had originally scheduled a show devoted to live recordings from Hermosa Beach's Lighthouse Cafe made after the breakup of Howard Rumsey's seminal west-coast jazz group the Lighthouse All-Stars this week on Night Lights. Rumsey passed away last Wednesday at the age of 97, so instead we'll be re-airing a previous Night Lights program that focused on him and the 1950s editions of the Lighthouse All-Stars: The Lighthouse All-Stars

Last week's Night Lights program, highlighting tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves' small-group recordings away from the Ellington orchestra in the late 1950s and early 1960s, is up for online listening: Off The A-Train: Paul Gonsalves, 1957-1963

I was obsessed with the Civil War when I was about seven years old--decades later, thinking about revisiting it through a good history. Any recommendations besides/beyond Shelby Foote's landmark trilogy? (Which is where I'm inclined to start, never having read it.)

Ha ha--yes, indeed! I'm in as well, Jim. Thanks as always.

Up for Bastille Day: Paris Noir: African-American Musicians In France

Passionate Trekkie as a kid in the 70s--used to stay up late to watch reruns on the local station (and always enjoy telling people about how the station's news team would "beam out" at the end of the newscast as the ST episode started). I do recall watching the animated series in the mid-70s and enjoying it, but didn't realize that so much of the original TV show folks were involved in its production. It would be fascinating to revisit those shows... life ain't long enough, I tell ya!

Excited to see Rob Refsnyder's debut tonight against the Red Sox: Yankees calling up Refsnyder An interesting and surprisingly enjoyable season for NY so far--clearly benefitting from the weakness of the AL East, to be sure. Very glad to see Brett Gardner make the All-Star team... He's been a joy to follow for the past seven years, one of my favorite players in the wake of the Core Four generation.

A roundup of four Night Lights programs devoted to the year of 1957 for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, and Sonny Rollins: 1957 Four Portraits In Jazz

A recent Night Lights show up for online listening, delving into the 1960s recordings of singer Nancy Wilson with Cannonball Adderley, Gerald Wilson, Ben Webster, George Shearing, Hank Jones, and more: Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson In The 1960s

Last week's Night Lights show--an attempt to fill out the story of the so-called "Bad Day At Black Rock," in which Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, and Charles Mingus were all supposedly dropped from the label in a single day--now up for online listening: The Great Columbia Jazz Purge: Coleman, Evans, Jarrett and Mingus Some more information and links at the bottom of the post, including a long quote from Clive Davis included in Chris Albertson's 1971 Saturday Review article about Miles Davis.

Fats Waller, If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It! A nicely-curated 3-CD overview, with a well-written (as always) booklet by Dan Morgenstern.

In the AL East this morning, nearly halfway through the season, the top four teams are separated by a total of one game.

Best recording debut year ever by a jazz artist? A recent Night Lights show on trombonist Curtis Fuller's first season in the jazz big leagues: Rookie Of The Year: Curtis Fuller '57

Review in the new New York Review of Books. You have to be a subscriber to read the full version online, however: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jul/09/le-jazz-hot/

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I started seeing reports about it online last night around 10:45 p.m. I was supposed to start vacation today, but went to the station this afternoon and removed the pre-recorded program I'd loaded in for the regularly scheduled show, playing this music instead: http://indianapublicmedia.org/justyouandme/2015-06-18/ Normally on Thursdays I play only Indiana jazz artists or artists coming to Indiana--hence the presence of those J.J., Freddie Hubbard, and Wes Montgomery tracks, all of which had moods that seemed to fit this particular program in one way or another. As I said during the show, we don't normally pull current events into Just You And Me, but when something this awful and harrowing happens, it seems weird and wrong not to acknowledge it. Especially in this instance, given jazz's longstanding relationship with the civil-rights movement.

A young friend of mine was asking me about the Red Camp album today--he evidently just came across a copy of it. First I'd heard of him, but I figured somebody here had...and Mr. Lowe, you didn't disappoint.