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Jazz After Dark, July 22, 2025

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

Coming up tonight, it’s Duke Ellington and some of the great musicians who worked with him. The songs:

  • Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra, Cotton Club Stomp
  • Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra, I Was Made to Love You
  • Duke Ellington, Come Sunday (with Mahalia Jackson)
  • Billy Strayhorn, Take the "A" Train
  • Johnny Hodges, Art Pepper Quintett / What's New
  • Johnny Hodges & Duke Ellington, Moon Glow
  • Johnny Hodges with Ray Nance vocals, Just Squeeze Me
  • Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges, Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
  • Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges, Wabash Blues
  • Duke Ellington, Take the "A" Train
  • Paul Gonsalves, I'm Beginning to See the Light
  • Harry Carney & The Duke's Men, Five O’clock Drag
  • Harry Carney, Paul Gonsalves, Harold Ashby & The Duke's Men, Backstairs
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Duke's Place

Davisville, July 21, 2025: The puppy-chewed training book, and other tales from the Davis Book Menders

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

The ordinary jobs that come to the Davis Book Menders include wear-and-tear repairs, like fixing torn pages or tattered covers, but some damage is unusual — like the books that displayed tire treads or evidence of use as a trivet. Whatever the problem, the menders can fix it, says Karen McCluskey, a member of the group … with some exceptions, such as the book they bagged and discarded because it seemed like a biohazard.

The menders gather each Tuesday to work around a long table (see photo) inside the main Davis library, and on the first Tuesday of each month they host a book-repair cafe for anyone who wants to come in for help fixing their own books.

Publisher’s Weekly says U.S. sales of printed books totaled 782.7 million in 2024, up 4.4 million from 2023. Today on Davisville we talk with McCluskey about the work and the satisfaction of mending thousands of books each year.
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