We can mourn what was lost, but we should celebrate what was saved: twelve minues of a jam session, hidden in plain sight. These two selections were performed on WNEW-AM in New York City, either December 22 or 29, 1940, location not specified.
The identifiable players are Hot Lips Page, trumpet and vocal; Lester Young, Charlie Barnet, tenor saxophones; others unidentified. The original recordist captured this on two sides of a home-recording disc, and there is a gap in Lester’s solo when the disc had to be turned over. Source material: a tape copy discovered by Thierry Trombert, issued on Masters of Jazz, “Lester Young: Volume 6, 1944 [sic], The Complementary Works,” MJCD 99. Another performance from this session is by Billie Holiday, singing THE MAN I LOVE.
But here’s Eddie Durham’s WHAM:
and OH, LADY BE GOOD, where Barnet quotes Lester before Lester begins, I think as an admiring acknowledgment:
Sharing is caring, Barney the purple dinosaur says, so I hope you enjoy this. It’s especially for one of jazz’s best friends, Matthew “Fat Cat” Rivera, long may he spin.
May your happiness increase!
JAZZ LIVES 
With all due respect to the others (especially “Lips”) Pres at this time inhabited a sublime parallel universe that no others could approach.
He still has that gorgeous light tone and dexterity we hear from his 1930 recordings.
Thanks for this also to whomever was the original recordist and our current blogger-in-chief!