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Being Prez
Lester Young was one of the great jazz masters, and his impact on the course of the art form was profound. He fundamentally changed the way the saxophone was played--his long, flowing lines brought new levels of expressiveness and subtlety to the jazz language, setting the standard for all modern players. In Being Prez, renowned British critic Dave Gelly follows Lester Young through his life in a rapidly changing world, showing how the music of this exceptionally sensitive man was shaped by his experiences. The reader meets a complicated, vulnerable, gentle individual who was brought up in his father's traveling carnival band. His early career was spent in the nightclubs and dancehalls of Ka...
Lester Young
A new edition of the musical biography of jazz tenor saxophonist Lester Young, with a revised discography
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You Just Fight for Your Life
A Danish musician here presents the most accurate, comprehensive work on a major figure in American jazz: Lester Willis Young (1909-1959), better known as `Pres' or `Prez,' from the nickname `President' given to him by Billie Holiday. Based on interviews with Young's colleagues and friends, and often presenting his own vulgar scatological words, the book faithfully chronicles the ups and downs of his life and career. Despite his alcoholism, drug addiction, syphillis, epilepsy, and emotional disturbances, Young became the outstanding tenor saxophonist of his time and a dominant, profound influence on the development of bop and progressive (`cool') jazz in the 1940s. His solos with the bands o...
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LESTER YOUNG RDR PB
This book retrieves long-out-of-print previously unpublished biographical and critical essays, as well as a complete and authoritative collection of Young's interviews and a selection of rare photographs. Together these materials form a record of the life and music of the man Billie Holiday nicknamed "the President." Outstanding in this symposium are contributions by Nat Henthoff, Barry Ulanov, Loren Schoenberg, Whitney Balliett, Bobby Scott, Allan Morrison, Frank Büchmann-Møller and notably Martin Williams.
Lester Leaps in
He was jazz music's first hipster, performing onstage in sunglasses and coining the enigmatic slang "that's cool" and "you dig?" He was "Pres" Young, as profiled in this definitive biography of a jazz legend. 20 photos.
You Got to Be Original, Man!
Lester Young, the legendary tenor sax player known as Pres, created earth-shattering music for nearly 25 years. Now for the first time, the many Presophiles around the globe and kindred jazz aficionados will have access to a complete guide to Young's recorded legacy in this exhaustive discography. This companion volume to Buchmann-Moller's You Just Fight for Your Life, the longest and most accurate biography of Young's life to date, details 251 recording sessions. Listed chronologically, each session has its own introduction that contains title, personnel, date and place of recording, record label, discographical information with matrix numbers, the number of the newest or most complete rele...
