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Thanks so much for this! Heat Wave is actually the only Cadet LP from this era that we have in the station's library... I have all of the ABC/Impulse albums from 1968-71. Haven't heard Extensions yet and will have to check it out, though for purposes of the Night Lights show I'll be focusing on trio with Nasser and Gant... and may include one of the Heat Wave tracks that you reference as a set-up for the ABC/Impulse era. The Awakening has certainly gotten some recognition over the years (and has evidently been a well-mined source for hiphop samples), but I'm surprised that this particular trio in general hasn't been more celebrated. Maybe it just looms in the shadow of the prior Crosby/Fournier trio that Mosaic so justifiably documented with their box set. Also, I hadn't even realized until I started working on this show that Jamal apparently took a hiatus from the music scene for several years in the early 1960s?

A rather short and curious article! We've discussed Legge around these parts before, iirc... I need to revisit that trio album.

With coronavirus surging, MLB’s return plan doesn’t matter

The agreement in March stipulated that 2020 would count as service time--but was that contingent on some sort of season actually being played? I have no idea if there was any language in that March agreement that addressed the consequences of a season cancellation in that regard.

Chocolate Dandies 1940, Hawk and Roy are fine, but Benny Carter... good gawd almighty. Benny Carter is ridiculous here:

Finally undertaking a show I've contemplated for a long time about Jamal's late 1960s/early 70s run of albums for Impulse with Jamil Sulieman Nasser and Frank Gant. What do other Jamal listeners here think of this period? (Jsngry, you a fan? I noticed that you posted "I Say A Little Prayer" from Tranquility).

Sounding way better than the CD-R version I made years ago by ripping the vinyl from the station’s library:

Thanks, Joe--I'll definitely give this a listen after wrapping up some production work this weekend.

Yes, and in other countries what should be a straight-up public health issue hasn’t been turned into another front for the culture wars. Btw isn’t the NBA planning to resume its season and play all of its games in Orlando, Florida?! Welcome to one of the hottest Covid-19 states in the country! Just read about 23 Clemson football players/personnel testing positive as well. Yeah, this is gonna go great.

Up in honor of one of my favorite jazz artists on his birthday. I listened to some of the Five Spot recordings in the Prestige box set last night... still capable of making me exclaim “Damn!” from time to time. The weird thing is that the out-of-tune piano now sounds right to me... is that just because I’ve listened to this music so many times? Or that it almost seems to fit with the sound of what Dolphy and Little are doing anyway? Or that Mal Waldron did what so many jazz pianists in clubs have had to do and somehow made it work?

Multiple Florida hospitals running out of ICU beds as coronavirus cases continue to spike Yep, things are going great!

All MLB training camps to temporarily close after positive coronavirus tests I believe most if not all of those camps are in Florida and Arizona, two of the worst states in the country right now when it comes to coronavirus. And apparently teams were planning to do pre-season workouts in their home stadiums anyway. Still, this doesn’t bode well for any kind of 2020 season.

It's already getting plenty bad again in Texas, Arizona, and Florida. I expect it to get even worse in the weeks to come. Meanwhile, the Onion scores again in the satire-is-truer-than-truth category: City enters phase 4 of pretending coronavirus is over

Major coronavirus outbreak at Phillies' spring training facility I just don't see how MLB will be able to sustain any kind of season, even if the owners and players come to an agreement. If they do, prepare for a number of teams to be decimated by Covid-19 IL quarantines.

We determine the Night Lights broadcast schedule a couple of months in advance, so I had no idea in late April that Juneteenth was going to be such a talked-about topic come mid-June; I slotted this 2009 program in as a rerun partly because Juneteenth falls this year on the same day of the week that my home station WFIU airs Night Lights. In any event, here’s the program, as described in the posts above: The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree

That’s beautiful, Brad. My girlfriend and I spent a couple of days wandering around Dublin and loved it. We were there in June 2016, so Easter Rebellion centennial fever was in full swing... saw a remarkable exhibition about it at the GPU, site of the rebels’ headquarters.

I have a couple of friends who do this.

Gotta admit I’m impressed by the deep-cut nature of much of this New York Times playlist: 15 essential black liberation jazz tracks

Digging this so far! Brecker Brothers live in 1980:

1939 broadcasts of Harry James’ big band with Frank Sinatra:

Me at the same tower popping out of the stairwell from which "stately, plump Buck Mulligan" emerges in the opening chapter of Ulysses, "bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." June 2016, a couple of days before Bloomsday... we really wanted to stick around, but had to head off to the UK for a Stone Roses concert. It was a magical trip!

You have a very different takeaway from the Snopes article than I do. And if he gets "cancelled," it will be because he's evidently a sexual harasser. But that's about as relevant to his study as your citing his ethnicity. Here's why I'm skeptical of Roland Fryer's study Fryer's paper came to opposite conclusion as a paper last year because it used different data I'm not an economist, crime expert, etc. Just saying that your citing of this paper doesn't exactly close the case when it comes to U.S. law enforcement and the disproportionate shooting of African-Americans.