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Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist. Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie 's orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his instrument.
Discover The Basie Years by Lester Young released in 2001. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Young plays a fine opening solo and he plays great exchanges with Basie, but that’s basically all that this performance has in common with the 1939 “Lester Leaps In”. The tempo is slower in 1944 than 5 years earlier, and the harmonic progression was “I Got Rhythm” in 1939 and a 12-bar blues on the “remake”. The slower tempo and ...
1 Leben. 1.1 Die frühen Jahre 1909–1934. 1.2 Die Basie Band 1934–1940. 1.3 Die Kriegszeit. 1.4 Die „Aladdin“-Sessions 1945–1947. 1.5 Der Abstieg. 2 Seine Persönlichkeit. 3 Seine Musik. 4 Seine Kompositionen. 5 Stimmen seiner Kollegen. 6 Sein Einfluss auf den Jazz. 7 Ehrungen. 8 Aufnahmen. 8.1 Aufnahmen 1938–1954. 8.2 Diskografie (Auswahl)
Lester Young – The Basie Years (2001, CD) - Discogs. Tracklist. Notes. (P)2001 TIM CZ. (C)2001 TIM The International Music Company AG. Barcode and Other Identifiers. Barcode: 00073752. Price Code: 202. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2001 CD release of "The Basie Years" on Discogs.
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The Legendary Lester Young & Count Basie Session. November 9, 1936. Lester Young’s first recordings took place when he was 27 years old, with a long and varied career already behind him. The great majority of his peers began recording in their early twenties and some in their teens, which makes tracing their stylistic evolution much easier:
16. Apr. 2024 · Lester Young was an American tenor saxophonist who emerged in the mid-1930s Kansas City, Mo., jazz world with the Count Basie band and introduced an approach to improvisation that provided much of the basis for modern jazz solo conception. Young’s tone was a striking departure from the accepted.
