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These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) is a old standard written by Eric Maschwitz, writing under the pseudonym Holt Marvell, with music by Jack Strach...

In this abbreviated edition of Sunday Morning Coming Down we pay tribute to Mothers Day. It hadnt even occurred to me to do so until listening to this weeks Radio Deluxe show last night. In honor of Mothers Day the hosts played their mothers favorite songs. Host John Pizzarelli played The More I See You by Dick Haymes in the version below with the introductory verse because thats the one

Anna Yatskevich / Courtesy of Newvelle Records Public acknowledgment took its time finding Billy Lester. A pianist devoted to searching for a new form of modern jazz, he spent more than half a century on the outskirts of New York City, quietly honing his craft. "I just figured Id go to my grave without any kind of recognition," he says plainly, "and I was at the point in my life where I totally accepted that." The situation changed only a few years ago when Lester was in his early 70s. A ...