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Night Lights Classic Jazz

David Young On WFIU's Artworks

By David Johnson
Published September 11, 2019 at 3:22 PM EDT

I'm currently working on a Night Lights program about David Young, the Indianapolis-based tenor saxophonist who passed away in February.

The Night Lights show will include

  • an unreleased recording of Young and cohort David Baker blowing long and hard at the Topper club in Indianapolis during the late 1950s

  • a Young solo with Mercer Ellington's Duke-legacy orchestra in the late 1970s

    • I'll also have some remarks from David Baker about his lifelong friend and musical colleague. In the meantime, here's a short preview, a five-minute segment I did last week for WFIU's weekly program, Artworks.

    External Links

    • Visit the Night Lights program, "David Young"

    • Read the Night Lights post dating from Young's death in February.

    • Hear the program "Indianapolis Jazz: Indiana Avenue."

      • Night Lights Classic Jazz