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Alex, yes, unfortunately it's a matter of legal/copyright issues that requires us to stream the show in RealPlayer. This thread might be helpful for finding other ways of accessing the show.

Thanks much, folks!

Here's a brighter spot of "news" (quotes because it's not really news, it's a report of increased optimism): Yankees more optimistic about possible return of Pettitte As I've said before, although I'd certainly welcome the improvement to a worrisome and shaky rotation, I'd mostly just be happy to have an official last hurrah for Andy. If he does come back, I'm making a date with MLB radio for every Pettitte start this coming year.

9:15 a.m. tomorrow EST?

I've ordered a copy of James Moody's DON'T LOOK AWAY NOW but am in immediate need of the track "Hear Me." Unfortunately, it's the only track at the Concord site that is "album-only" in the purchase category...if anybody has this track, could he or she PM/e-mail me? It pertains to an upcoming Night Lights show. Thanks much in advance for any assistance.

This week's Night Lights program pays a centennial tribute to the man trombonist Trummy Young described as "a bubbling gladiator" and whom fellow trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie called "the messiah of our generation": Portrait Of Little Jazz:  A Centennial Tribute To Roy Eldridge The program focuses on recordings Eldridge made between the late 1930s and 1950s, including encounters with Chu Berry, Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins, classic sides with Gene Krupa and Artie Shaw, and some of Eldridge's Verve leader dates. It is archived for online listening.. To delve deeper into a truly comprehensive overview of Eldridge's considerable musical legacy, check out this weekend's 48-hour WKCR Eldridge marathon broadcast.

It appears the Night Lights Research Department overlooked that particular recording. As a result all twelve staffers have been summarily canned, and we are now taking applications for the new Night Lights Research Street Team. Become a member today! Kidding aside, I confess to indeed not being hip to that album and probably would have used that track in place of the Coltrane/Cherry version, since I already have them in the show doing "The Invisible." Looks like an interesting Poll Winners collection in general; thanks for the heads-up.

He mentioned both of these when I interviewed him for the Night Lights Monk shows last year, and they're listed on his online vita: *Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2011) *A new edition of Babs Gonzales' I Paid My Dues (for which iirc Kelley has written a lengthy introduction) as forthcoming from Duke University Press.

We re-aired The Ornette Coleman Songbook this past week; it remains archived for online listening.

Just picked up this one tonight:

Down at Landlocked Music here in Bloomington: Clifford Thornton, FREEDOM AND UNITY, and the new CTI reissue of Ron Carter's ALL BLUES.

An excerpt from Kenneth's book in the new Vanity Fair: Holden Caulfield's Goddam War

Very moving: The Congresswoman and the astronaut

Caught this in A Blog Supreme's links roundup--Sam Stephenson on Sonny Clark in the Paris Review. Stephenson, who was a major force behind the recent jazz loft book and who's currently working on a biography of photographer W. Eugene Smith, says in the piece that he may do a book about Clark after he finishes the Smith bio. Some excellent background on Clark's childhood and origins... I hope the book does eventually come to pass.

Weizen!

If anybody on the board has either or both of these Chronological Classics titles, could he or she contact me via PM or e-mail? It relates to an Afterglow program I'm doing about Hibbler. Many thanks in advance, as always.

Jack Lewis has passed away.

Absolutely. Their third and fourth albums, "Look Around" and "Fool on the Hill" are both perfection, top to bottom. Love the tracks that sometimes get overlooked on the collections, such as "Like a Lover" or "So Many Stars." Norma Winstone does "Like a Lover" on her latest ECM CD.

Corresponding with a Night Lights listener who in his followup message asked me an audio question...I thought I'd pass it along to the experts here on the board:

You mean Olympia Snowe?

We re-aired Art Tatum: the Group Masterpieces last week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Excellent news--really psyched about this set!

Found! (Moderators, delete thread if you so wish...)

If anybody has this, could he/she contact me via PM or e-mail? It's in regards to an upcoming Night Lights show. Many thanks!

Wish I could find the actual video clip online of this 1988 SNL commercial parody: The Crests and Troughs of Vernon Hawley Jr.