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Several new biographies of Lester Young have been published in the years since Lewis Porter's Lester Young first appeared, but none have supplanted or even attempted the in-depth study that Porter brings to his subject's music. With the same care and scholarship that characterized his John Coltrane, Porter analyzes the music that made Lester Young "the most original tenor sax in jazz."
7. März 2015 · After becoming ill in Paris in early 1959, Lester Young came home and essentially drank himself to death. Many decades after his death, Pres is considered to be (along with Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane) one of the three most important tenor saxophonists of all time. NPR’s Murray Horwitz and jazz critic and poet AB Spellman recommend ...
26. Aug. 2020 · Lester Young. The jazz saxophonist and clarinetist accompanied and played with acts like Count Basie’s band, Billie Holiday, and Nat King Cole. Published on. August 26, 2020. By. uDiscover Team ...
Lester Willis Young was a famous jazz saxophonist born in Woodville, Mississippi on August 27, 1909. He belonged to a musically accomplished family. His father was a teacher who taught Young to play the trumpet, violin, drums and the saxophone, and his brother was a drummer. The family relocated to Louisiana and then Minnesota when Lester was ...
18. März 2024 · On the two instrumental numbers, “Lady Be Good” and “Shoe Shine Boy”, Young announces his arrival to the world with solo statements that are absolutely wondrous in their melodic ingenuity. Solos that must be amongst the most studied and analysed in all of jazz. Key Lester Young/Count Basie Recording: Shoe Shine Boy.
Biographie. Lester Willis Young, genannt „Prez“ oder „Pres“ (* 27. August 1909, Woodville, Mississippi; † 15. März 1959, New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Tenorsaxophonist und Klarinettist. Lester Young war einer der einflussreichen Saxophonisten des Jazz.
Lester Young. The tenor sax legend, known as Pres, whose melodic, smooth-flowing lines made him the most influential and inventive player of the pre-bop era. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1930s - 1950s. Born. August 27, 1909 in Woodville, MS.
