I love John’s shirts from this era. The one he wore for the “Fools Gold” TOTP is a definite fave.

From Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties:

I do think that Craft’s visual representation here may be a callback to Gerry Mulligan’s 1963 album Night Lights (which served as the source for the name of my show when I started it in 2004, and which Verve put out for RSD last year).

I’m generally not a #RecordStoreDay guy, given my preference for CDs. But how could I resist this LP-only comp of Moodsville sides titled “Night Lights”? (I did a couple of shows long ago about Moodsville, but I doubt that was the inspiration for this release.)

Sunday afternoon still-life with cat.

Sunday rainy-day listening. When it comes to jazz violin, friend & fellow Hoosier Sara Caswell’s my modern-day fave, but Stuff Smith takes historical honors. Nobody swung #jazzviolin more beautifully than #StuffSmith.

Omg I remember this from one of my first Doonesbury collections as a kid in the 1970s—the then-indispensable Doonesbury Chronicles.

Hello from my little bobtail Helen!

Great score, Mark! I’ve been looking for that one myself for a long time. And here’s the copy of Night Song I turned up a few years ago, printed in 1964 by a British jazz book club:

Awaiting the IU opera’s final performance of the Met-bound Kavalier and Clay.

What a handsome sweetie! Here’s my beloved Helen: