WFMU: The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from January 19, 2025

Listener comments!
	6:07pm Christina in Canada: Hello! Strange to see an empty comments column.
	6:09pm DJ Peter: Thanks for chiming in! The empty chat was bumming me out
	6:13pm Christina in Canada: I missed last week's open because I missed news of the time change. Rough for me because I've been enjoying the Dead People show, but I don't comment and I listen to the archives.
	6:14pm DJ Peter: ↳ Christina in Canada @6:13 the archives are a perfectly valid way to listen... but i'm glad you're here in real time!
	6:15pm adamdoesit: Nice eyes, DJ Peter. Hello horologists.
	6:16pm doctorjazz: Love this old Basie/Young stuff (these history shows are great)! Hi Peter, clocking the snow!
	6:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @6:15 I dig you the most, adamdoesit
	🕰 6:16pm Jeff Golick: too good!
	6:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ad Lib Blues" by "Charlie Christian" If I'm not mistaken, this box set comes in what looks like a guitar amp.
	6:18pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @6:18 when i have 3D imaging I'll paste in that box! Hey doc, Jeff
	6:19pm ike̶̬̕: Groovy.
	6:19pm DJ Peter: Hey Ike!
	6:19pm northguineahills: peter! chuckle clockers!
	6:20pm DJ Peter: northguineahills! how's the snow situation there!
	6:21pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Peter @6:20 just started an hour ago. now we're only supposed to get 5-8"s
	6:21pm DJ Peter: After the trumpet solo, the arranger just gives four empty bars for a key change and tells Lester to modulate
	6:24pm ike̶̬̕: I was just out there in the wintry mix of southern Brooklyn. Not too slippery so far, just damp. It's not sticking much yet.
	6:33pm northguineahills: ↳ ike̶̬̕ @6:24 up here, it finally just started to stick, as it was above freezing until 30 mins ago....
	6:38pm doctorjazz: Snow is sticking here in Central Joisey-went to pick up RebeccaJazz from the train, roads are slick.
	6:39pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "These Foolish Things" by "Lester Young" He keeps so far above the sigh of midnight trains in empty stations, etc., I hardly recognized it til you came, you saw, you conquered me.
	6:39pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @6:39 what a fool believes! (i'm the fool)
	6:40pm doctorjazz: The REAL President! (at least, can imagine it...)
	6:41pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" by "Count Basie" Late Prez, like late Billie, has lost some chops, but increased the emotional intensity of the music.
	6:42pm bigplanetnoise: Evening, DJ Peter and friends!
	6:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ bigplanetnoise @6:42 Hey BPN!
	6:43pm DJ Peter: Good evening to you, BPN!
	6:43pm bigplanetnoise: docjazz! Snow comin’ down hard here in Upstate,,,
	6:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ bigplanetnoise @6:43 Here too-glad to have kids home to shovel!
	6:44pm pot8o: hi everyone! apologies for my lateness, i may or may not have thought the show started at 6 central not 6 eastern
	6:45pm pot8o: ↳ northguineahills @6:19 ngh!
	6:45pm newton: I have nearly 2 inches of snow already. Hi dj Peter
	6:45pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Fine and Mellow" by "Lester Young" Prez has really lost some chops on this date.
	6:47pm adamdoesit: ↳ doctorjazz @6:45 Yeah, keeps repeating himself! ;)
	6:49pm DJ Peter: Whew, Newton be careful out there! Hey pot8o. You are always on time, says the Clock
	6:50pm doctorjazz: Prez is supposed to have played a metal clarinet (haven't heard of other players using that)
	6:51pm doctorjazz: This track is perfect!!!!
	6:51pm bigplanetnoise: So great
	6:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @6:50 Yeah, Lester on his metal clarinet, Ornette on his plastic alto... who else for the list?
	6:53pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "He's Funny That Way" by "Billie Holiday" i like that way of thinking of the instrumental roles: Billie Holiday, Buck Clayton (tp), Lester Young (cl).
	6:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Man I Love" by "Billie Holiday" Like Joe Sullivan, don't hear his name much any more. Sounds nice here.
	6:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Man I Love" by "Billie Holiday" Ahhhhh...
	6:59pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Them There Eyes" by "Kansas City Six" Wild guitar opening (Durham likily the 1st jazz electric guitar player).
	7:02pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Two to Tango" by "Lester Young" surprisingly ribald for '52, but then again lucille bogan exists...
	7:03pm DJ Peter: ↳ pot8o @7:02 not issued until the CD box set era!
	7:03pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Two to Tango" by "Lester Young" Never heard this. His singing, scatting voice is not what I expected at all!
	7:08pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @6:45 papas!
	7:13pm DJ Peter: was supposed to be Buck Clayton at this session but he injured his lip. Tatti Smith sounds great! Jo Jones has no bass drum: the disc cutter couldn't handle it and John Hammond wanted everyone to hear Walter Page's bass clearly
	7:13pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Lady Be Good" by "Jones-Smith Incorporated" Nice alternate take!
	7:15pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @7:13 Oh sorry if i misled... that was the master take! But these "one o'clock jump" has all sorts of riffs that didn't make the record
	7:15pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @7:13 I knew bass drums were verboten in 20s acoustic recordings (drummers used cowbells and other percussion not so resonant), didn't realize that was still true in 1938.
	7:16pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @7:15 The solos didn't sound familiar to me (have heard these many times), oh well.
	7:17pm DJ Peter: well maybe i switched them... easily could have... the DJP studio is a mess right now, multiple editions of Lester laying around, multiple reference books lying open...
	7:18pm DJ Peter: Lester got the "supersax" treatment here... or maybe the "four brothers" treatment (three tenors, one bari)
	7:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @7:17 And sometimes you just hear what you're expecting to hear...
	7:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Every Tub" by "Count Basie" Like these live dates-Prez's on fire!
	7:23pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Every Tub" by "Count Basie" wonder how they recorded these sessions back in the 1930s
	7:24pm pot8o: ↳ pot8o @7:23 (well, the live ones, i know how they did the studio ones)
	7:25pm DJ Peter: ↳ pot8o @7:24 these Savory dates were airchecks (so radio engineers). Savory was employed by the radio stations so he had some kind of telephone wire system where the signal went to him directly!
	7:26pm wenzo: Been enjoying the show, thanks Peter
	7:26pm wenzo: Salutations President Young!
	7:28pm DJ Peter: Hi Wenzo! Hail to the chief!
	7:29pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Honeysuckle Rose" by "Count Basie" Young is recorded so clearly, these are great (haven't heard them)!
	7:32pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @7:29 most of these were issued as downloads by the Harlem Jazz Museum before the Mosaic box. Mosaic issued the same tracks plus another disk work, most with sound notably worse than the first issue (but acceptable, obviously!)
	7:32pm DJ Peter: Still rumors that more are to come. The big holdout is the Benny Goodman estate: his descendants can't agree on anything.
	7:37pm doctorjazz: Have to put that Mosaic box on my list...
	7:40pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @7:37 full of riches... John Kirby... Fats Waller...
	7:43pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @7:32 Looks like some are still available from the Harlem Jazz Museum, but only through Apple music or iTunes (for purchase/download). jmih.org...
	7:44pm doctorjazz: And the Mosaic Box... www.mosaicrecords.com...
	7:45pm kwatts: That was a delightfully swinging set.
	7:51pm DJ Peter: enough to swing you into bad health!
	7:51pm DJ Peter: welcome kwatts!
	7:52pm wendy del formaggio: Hello DJ Peter. Lovely tunes, the Count Basie and Lester Young numbers.
	7:56pm DJ Peter: Hi Wendy! What's in store on "Wreck Your Own Adventure"?
	7:56pm pot8o: ↳ wendy del formaggio @7:52 wendy!
	8:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hello peter...looking forward to your soundtrack to my dinner prep
	8:02pm Dean: As with the "dead people" show, I've missed a ton of good music here, not least Susannah McCorkle, whom I learned about too late. Sad story.
	8:03pm DJ Peter: hello Dean, tom tom!
	8:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "I Want To Be Happy" by "Lester Young" Young's tone already sounds a bit darker by these mid 40s Recordings
	8:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @8:04 I couldn't find the quote: he said somewhere that in the 30s he played "alto" tenor, in the 40s "tenor" tenor, and in the 50s "baritone" tenor... something like that
	8:09pm Dean: You keep saying "leader," but I keep hearing "lieder."
	8:10pm wendy del formaggio: @DJP: Well, I’m not sure. Not broadcasting from the back deck of the Yacht Club, that much I know.
	8:10pm wendy del formaggio: Hello pot8o!
	8:13pm doctorjazz: Here's part one of a Lewis Porter Substack on Prez's tone... lewisporter.substack.com...
	8:14pm Dean: Lester had a number of odd linguistic habits; one was his addressing everybody as “lady”, so Basie was “Lady Basie”. Pryor, W. A. (2014). FOREVER YOUNG: LESTER YOUNG, THE SUPREMELY CREATIVE BUT MELANCHOLY GENIUS. IAJRC Journal, 47(4), 11-16.
	8:15pm newton: I just shoveled the walkway with these fine tunes in my ears! 6" already! walked the dog too! She was shoulder high in the snow banks.
	8:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Taxi War Dance" by "Count Basie and His Orchestra" Killer!!!
	8:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Taxi War Dance" by "Count Basie and His Orchestra" Wells ain't half bad either...
	8:22pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Taxi War Dance" by "Count Basie and His Orchestra" In my personal opinion, this is the greatest jazz song title of them all.
	8:24pm DJ Peter: Three meanings! At least!
	8:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Tickle Toe" by "Lee Konitz" Greta track/album!
	8:25pm Dean: Like "Huge Library Book Sale." What's huge?
	8:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @8:25 *Great, shudda said...
	8:27pm tom tom the pipers son: dinnertime... from fridge to plate 25 min...not bad
	8:29pm doctorjazz: Gotta run, loved the tribute, catch the rest in the archive, thanks DJ Peter. Be well, Be warm and dry all!
	8:29pm newton: bon appétit
	8:30pm tom tom the pipers son: 👍🏻
	8:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @8:29 oh...how was to ham...?
	8:32pm tom tom the pipers son: the ham
	8:32pm newton: ham very good, thanks. Fresh ham not smoked, so more like rost porkw/ garlic and rosemary
	8:33pm Dean: Another Lester tribute c/o of Richard Meltzer, "Goodbye Pork-Pie Cravat": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0VFHQh9baU
	8:33pm newton: made it to have something available all week in the wilderness with lots of snow and bitter cold outside.
	8:35pm DJ Peter: ↳ newton @8:33 good thought! after I hang up the headphones i'm heading outside with shovel!
	8:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @8:33 nice idea ...was going to say ...nicely fortified for shoveling snow
	8:37pm DJ Peter: more lester scatting! must be himm...
	8:38pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @8:37 I was about to ask!
	8:38pm DJ Peter: Sadik Hakim doesn't seem like a good fit for Lester but he was with him for a good while... so herky jerky
	8:38pm DJ Peter: Roy Haynes on the other hand...!
	8:40pm newton: since you talked about CP's plastic sax I was surprised to see there is a company making polycarbonate saxes today. Why they have to have silicone pads I dont know. I am not getting one. I played tenor throughout high school. One of my greatest gifts to humankind is not having touched one since!
	8:42pm DJ Peter: ↳ newton @8:40 interesting. surely much lighter. but how does it sound? newton refuses to blow for us
	8:44pm newton: ↳ DJ Peter @8:42 honestly it wasnt so bad sounding. Not especially complex and resonant, a little muted, but serviceable for sure
	8:46pm Christina in Canada: Before I do my three-burner circus in the kitchen, DJ Peter, I than you for the superb playlist. I'll be watching/listening to a YT upload of CBS's 1957 "The Sound of Jazz" for more LY. Have a good evening, all
	8:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Indiana" by "Lester Young" some of these LPs are out on CD now and... I'm not MAD but... it did take me a long time to assembly all the LPs...
	8:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ Christina in Canada @8:46 That's a great show all around. not a bad note. Thelonious! Giuffre! Mulligan! Red Allen!
	8:48pm tom tom the pipers son: i guess it's conceivable that parker used the plastic sax as a self conscious obstacle to play "against" not trusting the normal sax's fluency
	8:49pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Indiana" by "Lester Young" Prez lived across the street from Birdland so... this was an easy commute!
	8:49pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:48 Ornette liked the "leaky" sound
	8:50pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @8:49 oh....ha...!
	8:51pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Indiana" by "Lester Young" That was the least John Lewisy John Lewis playing I've heard. Full KC ahead.
	8:56pm northguineahills: i've never been to birdland...
	8:57pm adamdoesit: Cool tribute, DJ Peter. Thanks for putting it together. I hope we're all back here in four years to do it again.
	8:58pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Almost Like Being In Love" by "Lester Young" This is the same Bill Potts who put out a big band "Porgy and Bess"
	8:59pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks peter, pleasure stopping by..
	8:59pm northguineahills: thanks peter for prezing it up for us!
	9:00pm Wendy del Formaggio: Thank you, DJ Peter! Prez for Pres!
	9:00pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @8:59 a prez-ent practically
	9:00pm newton: thanks dj Peter!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: thanks everybody!

The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from January 19, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Count Basie	M Squad Theme (excerpt)	Basic Basie	MPS	1969	Eric Dixon (fl) Freddie Green (g) Norman Keenan (b) Harold Jones (d) Chico O'Farrill (arr), et al.	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Red Garland	M Squad Theme "M Squad Theme" by "Red Garland"	Red In Bluesville	Prestige	1969	4/17/1959: Red Garland (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Taylor (d)	0:00:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lester Young	Fine and Mellow "Fine and Mellow" by "Lester Young"	The Sound of Jazz (Broadcast)			12/8/1957: CBS-TV	0:04:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jones-Smith Incorporated	Shoe Shine Boy	Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie And Lester Young Studio Sessions	Mosaic		11/9/1936: Carl Smith (tp) Lester Young (ts) Count Basie (p) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d) Jimmy Rushing (vcl)	0:07:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra	This Year's Kisses	Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944)	Columbia		1/25/1937: Buck Clayton (tp) Benny Goodman (cl) Lester Young (ts) Teddy Wilson (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d) Billie Holiday (vcl)	0:10:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie's Kansas City Seven	Lester Leaps In	Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940)	Mosaic		9/5/1939: Buck Clayton (tp) Dicky Wells (tb) Lester Young (ts) Count Basie (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d)	0:13:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Charlie Christian	Ad Lib Blues "Ad Lib Blues" by "Charlie Christian"	The Genius Of The Electric Guitar	Columbia		10/28/1940: Buck Clayton (tp) Lester Young (ts) Count Basie (p) Charlie Christian, Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d)	0:16:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	Easy Does It "Easy Does It" by "Count Basie"	Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940)	Mosaic		3/20/1940. solos: Buck Clayton (tp), Lester Young (ts), Harry Sweets Edison (tp)	0:20:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lester Young	Fine and Mellow "Fine and Mellow" by "Lester Young"	The Sound of Jazz (Broadcast)			12/8/1957: CBS-TV	0:23:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Coleman Hawkins	Body and Soul "Body and Soul" by "Coleman Hawkins"	The Savory Collection 1935-1940	Mosaic		5/17/1940: probable personnel: Bill Dillard, Joe Guy, Tommy Lindsay (tp) Claude Jones, Earl Hardy, Billy Cato (tb) Jackie Fields, Eustis Moore (as) Ernie Powell (ts,cl) Coleman Hawkins, Kermit Scott (ts) Gene Rodgers (p) Lawrence "Larry" Lucie (g) Johnny Williams (b) Art Herbert (d)	0:29:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young	These Foolish Things	The Complete Aladdin Recordings	Blue Note		12/20/1945: Lester Young (ts) Dodo Marmarosa (p) Red Callender (b) Henry Tucker (d)	0:34:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	Polka Dots and Moonbeams	Count Basie at Newport	Verve		7/7/1957.	0:38:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra	I've Found A New Baby	Away From Base	JSP		6/1/1937: Buck Clayton (tp) Buster Bailey (cl) Lester Young (ts) Teddy Wilson (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d)	0:41:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lester Young	Fine and Mellow "Fine and Mellow" by "Lester Young"	The Sound of Jazz (Broadcast)			12/8/1957: CBS-TV	0:44:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Billie Holiday	He's Funny That Way	Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944)	Columbia		9/13/1937: Buck Clayton (tp) Buster Bailey (cl) Lester Young (ts) Claude Thornhill (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d) Billie Holiday (vcl)	0:48:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra	Mean To Me	Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944)	Columbia		5/11/1937: Buck Clayton (tp) Buster Bailey (cl) Johnny Hodges (as) Lester Young (ts) Teddy Wilson (p) Allan Reuss (g) Artie Bernstein (b) Cozy Cole (d) Billie Holiday (vcl)	0:51:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Billie Holiday	The Man I Love "The Man I Love" by "Billie Holiday"	Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944)	Columbia		12/13/1939: Buck Clayton, Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp) Earl Warren (as) Lester Young (ts) Jack Washington (as,bs) Joe Sullivan (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d) Billie Holiday (vcl)	0:54:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kansas City Six	Them There Eyes "Them There Eyes" by "Kansas City Six"	The "Kansas City" Sessions	Commodore	1997	9/27/1938: Buck Clayton (tp) Lester Young (ts and cl) Eddie Durham (el-g) Freddie Green (g,vcl) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d)	0:57:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young	Two to Tango "Two to Tango" by "Lester Young"	The Complete Studio Sessions of Lester Young on Verve	Verve		11/28/1952: Lester Young (vcl,ts) Oscar Peterson (p) Barney Kessel (g) Ray Brown (b) J.C. Heard (d)	1:00:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lester Young	Fine and Mellow "Fine and Mellow" by "Lester Young"	The Sound of Jazz (Broadcast)			12/8/1957: CBS-TV	1:03:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jones-Smith Incorporated	Lady Be Good	Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie And Lester Young Studio Sessions	Mosaic		11/9/1936: Carl Smith (tp) Lester Young (ts) Count Basie (p) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d) Jimmy Rushing (vcl)	1:10:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	One O'Clock Jump "One O'Clock Jump" by "Count Basie"	The Savory Collection 1935-1940	Mosaic		5/29/1938 (Randall's Island), Carnival of Swing Festival via WNEW. solos: Herschel Evans (ts), Bennie Morton (tb), Lester Young (ts), Buck Clayton (tp)	1:13:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dave Pell's Prez Conference	Jumpin' at the Woodside	In Celebration of Lester Young	GNP Crescendo		1978. Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp) Dave Pell, Bob Cooper, Gordon Brisker (ts) Bill Hood (bar) Arnold Ross (p) Al Hendrickson (g) Frank De La Rosa (b) Will Bradley, Jr. (d) Bill Holman (arr)	1:18:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	Every Tub "Every Tub" by "Count Basie"	The Savory Collection 1935-1940	Mosaic		5/29/1938 (Randall's Island), Carnival of Swing Festival via WNEW. solos: Lester Young (ts) Harry Sweets Edison (tp) Herschel Evans (ts)	1:22:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	Honeysuckle Rose "Honeysuckle Rose" by "Count Basie"	The Savory Collection 1935-1940	Mosaic		8/28/1938: Famous Door. solos: Buck Clayton (tp), Lester Young (ts), Herschel Evans (ts)	1:25:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	Rosetta "Rosetta" by "Count Basie"	The Savory Collection 1935-1940	Mosaic		10/11/1938: solos: Herschel Evans (ts), Buck Clayton (tp), Lester Young (ts)	1:29:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	Swingin' the Blues "Swingin' the Blues" by "Count Basie"	The Savory Collection	Mosaic		4/2/1939: solos: Bennie Morton (tb), Lester Young, Buck Clayton (tp), Buddy Tate (ts), Harry Sweets Edison (tp)	1:32:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	I Got Rhythm "I Got Rhythm" by "Count Basie"	The Golden Years, vol. 3	Jazz Archives		2/20/1940: (Boston: Southland) solos: Lester Young, Harry Sweets Edison (tp), Vic Dickenson (tb)	1:36:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	Bugle Call Rag "Bugle Call Rag" by "Count Basie"	The Savory Collection 1935-1940	Mosaic		2/28/1940 (Boston: Southland Ballroom) solos: Lester Young, Harry Sweets Edison (tp)	1:42:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lester Young	Fine and Mellow "Fine and Mellow" by "Lester Young"	The Sound of Jazz (Broadcast)			12/8/1957: CBS-TV	1:44:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young	Just You, Just Me "Just You, Just Me" by "Lester Young"	The Essential Keynote Collection 1: The Complete Lester Young	Mercury	1987	12/28/1943: Lester Young (ts) Johnny Guarnieri (p) Slam Stewart (b) Sidney Catlett (d)	1:50:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Susannah McCorkle	Sometimes I'm Happy	No More Blues	Concord Jazz	1989	October 1988: Dave Frishberg (p) Bucky Pizzarelli (g) John Goldsby (b) Terry Clarke (d) King Pleasure (vocalese lyrics)	1:53:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young Quintet	Blue Lester "Blue Lester" by "Lester Young Quintet"	Pres/The Complete Savoy Recordings	Savoy		5/1/1944: Lester Young (ts) Count Basie (p) Freddie Green (g) Rodney Richardson (b) Shadow Wilson (d)	1:57:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young	I Want To Be Happy "I Want To Be Happy" by "Lester Young"	The Complete Studio Sessions of Lester Young on Verve	Verve		March or April 1946: Lester Young (ts) Nat King Cole (p) Buddy Rich (d)	2:00:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young	On the Sunny Side of the Street	The Complete Aladdin Recordings Of Lester Young			October 1946: Lester Young (ts) Argonne Thornton (p) [aka Sadik Hakim (p) ] Fred Lacey (g) Rodney Richardson (b) Lyndell Marshall (d)	2:04:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lester Young	Fine and Mellow "Fine and Mellow" by "Lester Young"	The Sound of Jazz (Broadcast)			12/8/1957: CBS-TV	2:07:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie	Jive at Five "Jive at Five" by "Count Basie"	Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie And Lester Young Studio Sessions	Mosaic		2/4/1939: Dicky Wells (tb) Jack Washington (bari) Lester Young (ts) Buck Clayton (tp).	2:10:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kansas City Six	After You've Gone	From Spirituals To Swing - The Legendary 1938 & 1939 Carnegie Concerts Produced by John Hammond	Vanguard		12/23/1938 (Carnegie Hall): Buck Clayton (tp) Lester Young (cl,ts) Leonard Ware (el-g) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d)	2:13:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Basie's Bad Boys	I Ain't Got Nobody	Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940)	Mosaic		2/13/1939: Buck Clayton, Shad Collins (tp) Lester Young (ts and cl) Count Basie (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d)	2:17:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Taxi War Dance	Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940)	Mosaic		3/19/1939: Lester, Dicky Wells (tb), Buddy Tate (ts) then Lester again	2:20:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lee Konitz	Tickle Toe "Tickle Toe" by "Lee Konitz"	The Lee Konitz Duets	Milestone	1968	9/5/1967: Lee Konitz, Richie Kamuca (ts)	2:23:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross plus the Basie Band	Let Me See	Sing A Song of Basie	Roulette	1958	5/27/1958: Buddy Tate (sung by Annie Ross) Vic Dickenson (Dave Lambert) Lester Young (Jon Hendricks)	2:26:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lester Young	Fine and Mellow "Fine and Mellow" by "Lester Young"	The Sound of Jazz (Broadcast)			12/8/1957: CBS-TV	2:29:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young	Moving with Lester "Moving with Lester" by "Lester Young"	One Night Stand: The Town Hall Concert 1947	Blue Note	1997	11/8/1947: (NYC: Town Hall) Shorty McConnell (tp) Lester Young (ts) Sadik Hakim (p) [aka Argonne Thornton (p) ] Fred Lacey (g) Rodney Richardson (b) Roy Haynes (d)	2:33:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young	Ghost of a Chance "Ghost of a Chance" by "Lester Young"	The President (volume 1)	Ambrosia		3/17/1951 (Birdland via WNEW): Jesse Drakes (tp) Lester Young (ts) John Lewis (p) Gene Ramey (b) Jo Jones (d)	2:39:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young	Indiana "Indiana" by "Lester Young"	The President (volume 2)	Ambrosia	1991	5/19/1951 (Birdland via WNEW): Jesse Drakes (tp) Lester Young (ts) John Lewis (p) Gene Ramey (b) Jo Jones (d)	2:43:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Young	I Can't Get Started "I Can't Get Started" by "Lester Young"	The President (volume 6)	Ambrosia		7/4/1953 (Birdland via NBC): Jesse Drakes (tp) Lester Young (ts) Gildo Mahones (p) Leroy Jackson (b) Connie Kay (d)	2:50:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lester Young	Almost Like Being In Love	In Washington, DC 1956, vol. 4	Pablo	1981	December 1958 (Washington: Olivia's Patio Lounge): Lester Young (ts) Bill Potts (p) Norman Williams (b) Jim Lucht (d)	2:57:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:07pm Christina in Canada: Hello! Strange to see an empty comments column.
	6:09pm DJ Peter: Thanks for chiming in! The empty chat was bumming me out
	6:13pm Christina in Canada: I missed last week's open because I missed news of the time change. Rough for me because I've been enjoying the Dead People show, but I don't comment and I listen to the archives.
	6:14pm DJ Peter: ↳ Christina in Canada @6:13 the archives are a perfectly valid way to listen... but i'm glad you're here in real time!
	6:15pm adamdoesit: Nice eyes, DJ Peter. Hello horologists.
	6:16pm doctorjazz: Love this old Basie/Young stuff (these history shows are great)! Hi Peter, clocking the snow!
	6:16pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @6:15 I dig you the most, adamdoesit
	🕰 6:16pm Jeff Golick: too good!
	6:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ad Lib Blues" by "Charlie Christian" If I'm not mistaken, this box set comes in what looks like a guitar amp.
	6:18pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @6:18 when i have 3D imaging I'll paste in that box! Hey doc, Jeff
	6:19pm ike̶̬̕: Groovy.
	6:19pm DJ Peter: Hey Ike!
	6:19pm northguineahills: peter! chuckle clockers!
	6:20pm DJ Peter: northguineahills! how's the snow situation there!
	6:21pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Peter @6:20 just started an hour ago. now we're only supposed to get 5-8"s
	6:21pm DJ Peter: After the trumpet solo, the arranger just gives four empty bars for a key change and tells Lester to modulate
	6:24pm ike̶̬̕: I was just out there in the wintry mix of southern Brooklyn. Not too slippery so far, just damp. It's not sticking much yet.
	6:33pm northguineahills: ↳ ike̶̬̕ @6:24 up here, it finally just started to stick, as it was above freezing until 30 mins ago....
	6:38pm doctorjazz: Snow is sticking here in Central Joisey-went to pick up RebeccaJazz from the train, roads are slick.
	6:39pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "These Foolish Things" by "Lester Young" He keeps so far above the sigh of midnight trains in empty stations, etc., I hardly recognized it til you came, you saw, you conquered me.
	6:39pm DJ Peter: ↳ adamdoesit @6:39 what a fool believes! (i'm the fool)
	6:40pm doctorjazz: The REAL President! (at least, can imagine it...)
	6:41pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" by "Count Basie" Late Prez, like late Billie, has lost some chops, but increased the emotional intensity of the music.
	6:42pm bigplanetnoise: Evening, DJ Peter and friends!
	6:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ bigplanetnoise @6:42 Hey BPN!
	6:43pm DJ Peter: Good evening to you, BPN!
	6:43pm bigplanetnoise: docjazz! Snow comin’ down hard here in Upstate,,,
	6:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ bigplanetnoise @6:43 Here too-glad to have kids home to shovel!
	6:44pm pot8o: hi everyone! apologies for my lateness, i may or may not have thought the show started at 6 central not 6 eastern
	6:45pm pot8o: ↳ northguineahills @6:19 ngh!
	6:45pm newton: I have nearly 2 inches of snow already. Hi dj Peter
	6:45pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Fine and Mellow" by "Lester Young" Prez has really lost some chops on this date.
	6:47pm adamdoesit: ↳ doctorjazz @6:45 Yeah, keeps repeating himself! ;)
	6:49pm DJ Peter: Whew, Newton be careful out there! Hey pot8o. You are always on time, says the Clock
	6:50pm doctorjazz: Prez is supposed to have played a metal clarinet (haven't heard of other players using that)
	6:51pm doctorjazz: This track is perfect!!!!
	6:51pm bigplanetnoise: So great
	6:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @6:50 Yeah, Lester on his metal clarinet, Ornette on his plastic alto... who else for the list?
	6:53pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "He's Funny That Way" by "Billie Holiday" i like that way of thinking of the instrumental roles: Billie Holiday, Buck Clayton (tp), Lester Young (cl).
	6:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Man I Love" by "Billie Holiday" Like Joe Sullivan, don't hear his name much any more. Sounds nice here.
	6:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Man I Love" by "Billie Holiday" Ahhhhh...
	6:59pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Them There Eyes" by "Kansas City Six" Wild guitar opening (Durham likily the 1st jazz electric guitar player).
	7:02pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Two to Tango" by "Lester Young" surprisingly ribald for '52, but then again lucille bogan exists...
	7:03pm DJ Peter: ↳ pot8o @7:02 not issued until the CD box set era!
	7:03pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Two to Tango" by "Lester Young" Never heard this. His singing, scatting voice is not what I expected at all!
	7:08pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @6:45 papas!
	7:13pm DJ Peter: was supposed to be Buck Clayton at this session but he injured his lip. Tatti Smith sounds great! Jo Jones has no bass drum: the disc cutter couldn't handle it and John Hammond wanted everyone to hear Walter Page's bass clearly
	7:13pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Lady Be Good" by "Jones-Smith Incorporated" Nice alternate take!
	7:15pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @7:13 Oh sorry if i misled... that was the master take! But these "one o'clock jump" has all sorts of riffs that didn't make the record
	7:15pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @7:13 I knew bass drums were verboten in 20s acoustic recordings (drummers used cowbells and other percussion not so resonant), didn't realize that was still true in 1938.
	7:16pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @7:15 The solos didn't sound familiar to me (have heard these many times), oh well.
	7:17pm DJ Peter: well maybe i switched them... easily could have... the DJP studio is a mess right now, multiple editions of Lester laying around, multiple reference books lying open...
	7:18pm DJ Peter: Lester got the "supersax" treatment here... or maybe the "four brothers" treatment (three tenors, one bari)
	7:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @7:17 And sometimes you just hear what you're expecting to hear...
	7:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Every Tub" by "Count Basie" Like these live dates-Prez's on fire!
	7:23pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Every Tub" by "Count Basie" wonder how they recorded these sessions back in the 1930s
	7:24pm pot8o: ↳ pot8o @7:23 (well, the live ones, i know how they did the studio ones)
	7:25pm DJ Peter: ↳ pot8o @7:24 these Savory dates were airchecks (so radio engineers). Savory was employed by the radio stations so he had some kind of telephone wire system where the signal went to him directly!
	7:26pm wenzo: Been enjoying the show, thanks Peter
	7:26pm wenzo: Salutations President Young!
	7:28pm DJ Peter: Hi Wenzo! Hail to the chief!
	7:29pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Honeysuckle Rose" by "Count Basie" Young is recorded so clearly, these are great (haven't heard them)!
	7:32pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @7:29 most of these were issued as downloads by the Harlem Jazz Museum before the Mosaic box. Mosaic issued the same tracks plus another disk work, most with sound notably worse than the first issue (but acceptable, obviously!)
	7:32pm DJ Peter: Still rumors that more are to come. The big holdout is the Benny Goodman estate: his descendants can't agree on anything.
	7:37pm doctorjazz: Have to put that Mosaic box on my list...
	7:40pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @7:37 full of riches... John Kirby... Fats Waller...
	7:43pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @7:32 Looks like some are still available from the Harlem Jazz Museum, but only through Apple music or iTunes (for purchase/download). jmih.org...
	7:44pm doctorjazz: And the Mosaic Box... www.mosaicrecords.com...
	7:45pm kwatts: That was a delightfully swinging set.
	7:51pm DJ Peter: enough to swing you into bad health!
	7:51pm DJ Peter: welcome kwatts!
	7:52pm wendy del formaggio: Hello DJ Peter. Lovely tunes, the Count Basie and Lester Young numbers.
	7:56pm DJ Peter: Hi Wendy! What's in store on "Wreck Your Own Adventure"?
	7:56pm pot8o: ↳ wendy del formaggio @7:52 wendy!
	8:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hello peter...looking forward to your soundtrack to my dinner prep
	8:02pm Dean: As with the "dead people" show, I've missed a ton of good music here, not least Susannah McCorkle, whom I learned about too late. Sad story.
	8:03pm DJ Peter: hello Dean, tom tom!
	8:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "I Want To Be Happy" by "Lester Young" Young's tone already sounds a bit darker by these mid 40s Recordings
	8:06pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @8:04 I couldn't find the quote: he said somewhere that in the 30s he played "alto" tenor, in the 40s "tenor" tenor, and in the 50s "baritone" tenor... something like that
	8:09pm Dean: You keep saying "leader," but I keep hearing "lieder."
	8:10pm wendy del formaggio: @DJP: Well, I’m not sure. Not broadcasting from the back deck of the Yacht Club, that much I know.
	8:10pm wendy del formaggio: Hello pot8o!
	8:13pm doctorjazz: Here's part one of a Lewis Porter Substack on Prez's tone... lewisporter.substack.com...
	8:14pm Dean: Lester had a number of odd linguistic habits; one was his addressing everybody as “lady”, so Basie was “Lady Basie”. Pryor, W. A. (2014). FOREVER YOUNG: LESTER YOUNG, THE SUPREMELY CREATIVE BUT MELANCHOLY GENIUS. IAJRC Journal, 47(4), 11-16.
	8:15pm newton: I just shoveled the walkway with these fine tunes in my ears! 6" already! walked the dog too! She was shoulder high in the snow banks.
	8:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Taxi War Dance" by "Count Basie and His Orchestra" Killer!!!
	8:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Taxi War Dance" by "Count Basie and His Orchestra" Wells ain't half bad either...
	8:22pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Taxi War Dance" by "Count Basie and His Orchestra" In my personal opinion, this is the greatest jazz song title of them all.
	8:24pm DJ Peter: Three meanings! At least!
	8:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Tickle Toe" by "Lee Konitz" Greta track/album!
	8:25pm Dean: Like "Huge Library Book Sale." What's huge?
	8:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @8:25 *Great, shudda said...
	8:27pm tom tom the pipers son: dinnertime... from fridge to plate 25 min...not bad
	8:29pm doctorjazz: Gotta run, loved the tribute, catch the rest in the archive, thanks DJ Peter. Be well, Be warm and dry all!
	8:29pm newton: bon appétit
	8:30pm tom tom the pipers son: 👍🏻
	8:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @8:29 oh...how was to ham...?
	8:32pm tom tom the pipers son: the ham
	8:32pm newton: ham very good, thanks. Fresh ham not smoked, so more like rost porkw/ garlic and rosemary
	8:33pm Dean: Another Lester tribute c/o of Richard Meltzer, "Goodbye Pork-Pie Cravat": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0VFHQh9baU
	8:33pm newton: made it to have something available all week in the wilderness with lots of snow and bitter cold outside.
	8:35pm DJ Peter: ↳ newton @8:33 good thought! after I hang up the headphones i'm heading outside with shovel!
	8:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @8:33 nice idea ...was going to say ...nicely fortified for shoveling snow
	8:37pm DJ Peter: more lester scatting! must be himm...
	8:38pm adamdoesit: ↳ DJ Peter @8:37 I was about to ask!
	8:38pm DJ Peter: Sadik Hakim doesn't seem like a good fit for Lester but he was with him for a good while... so herky jerky
	8:38pm DJ Peter: Roy Haynes on the other hand...!
	8:40pm newton: since you talked about CP's plastic sax I was surprised to see there is a company making polycarbonate saxes today. Why they have to have silicone pads I dont know. I am not getting one. I played tenor throughout high school. One of my greatest gifts to humankind is not having touched one since!
	8:42pm DJ Peter: ↳ newton @8:40 interesting. surely much lighter. but how does it sound? newton refuses to blow for us
	8:44pm newton: ↳ DJ Peter @8:42 honestly it wasnt so bad sounding. Not especially complex and resonant, a little muted, but serviceable for sure
	8:46pm Christina in Canada: Before I do my three-burner circus in the kitchen, DJ Peter, I than you for the superb playlist. I'll be watching/listening to a YT upload of CBS's 1957 "The Sound of Jazz" for more LY. Have a good evening, all
	8:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Indiana" by "Lester Young" some of these LPs are out on CD now and... I'm not MAD but... it did take me a long time to assembly all the LPs...
	8:47pm DJ Peter: ↳ Christina in Canada @8:46 That's a great show all around. not a bad note. Thelonious! Giuffre! Mulligan! Red Allen!
	8:48pm tom tom the pipers son: i guess it's conceivable that parker used the plastic sax as a self conscious obstacle to play "against" not trusting the normal sax's fluency
	8:49pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Indiana" by "Lester Young" Prez lived across the street from Birdland so... this was an easy commute!
	8:49pm DJ Peter: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:48 Ornette liked the "leaky" sound
	8:50pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ DJ Peter @8:49 oh....ha...!
	8:51pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "Indiana" by "Lester Young" That was the least John Lewisy John Lewis playing I've heard. Full KC ahead.
	8:56pm northguineahills: i've never been to birdland...
	8:57pm adamdoesit: Cool tribute, DJ Peter. Thanks for putting it together. I hope we're all back here in four years to do it again.
	8:58pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Almost Like Being In Love" by "Lester Young" This is the same Bill Potts who put out a big band "Porgy and Bess"
	8:59pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks peter, pleasure stopping by..
	8:59pm northguineahills: thanks peter for prezing it up for us!
	9:00pm Wendy del Formaggio: Thank you, DJ Peter! Prez for Pres!
	9:00pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @8:59 a prez-ent practically
	9:00pm newton: thanks dj Peter!
	9:00pm DJ Peter: thanks everybody!

The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from January 19, 2025

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