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| | Lester Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Young's father was a respected teacher, his brother Lee Young was a drummer, and several other relatives played music professionally. | | | Particularly noteworthy are his performances with JATP in 1946, 1949, and 1950 - his solo on "Lester Leaps In" at the 1949 JATP concert at Carnegie Hall stands as perhaps one of the greatest solos by any jazz musician ever. | | | In any event, Lester did leave the band around that time and subsequently led a number of small groups that often included his brother, noted drummer Lee Young, for the next couple of years - some very notable live and broadcast recordings from this period exist. |
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| | Lester Prez Young, a Mississippi musician |
| | Lester Young was born into a musical life in Mississippi. | | | Lester was first taught to play the violin, the trumpet, and the drums.(Early years). | | | Of all the places he played, Lester will probably always be remembered as a Kansas City jazz man. For the next several years he and Basie toured, and recorded. |
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| | BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Lester Young |
| | Young's velvety tone and rapid articulation were major influences on the bebop generation of saxophonists that followed, notably Charlie Parker. | | | As well as this practical musical apprenticeship - Young tried several instruments before deciding on saxophone - he absorbed the styles of Jimmy Dorsey and Frankie Trumbauer from records. | | | His light, airy sound, and the melodic grace of his improvisations were in direct contrast to Hawkins's gruffer, more harmonically-based approach. |
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| | Lester Young |
| | Lester Young was born into a musical life on August 27, 1909, in Woodville, Missouri. | | | Lester became familiar with the violin, trumpet, and drums, but eventually settled on the alto saxophone at around age thirteen. | | | With a unit from Basie's band, he made his first individual recordings. |
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| | Lester Young @ The Jazz Files |
| | In Chicago Basie and Young recorded "Lady Be Good", a record that would weld them in a musical partnership neither would ever escape, even after years working apart. | | | But Young had an alternate life in the studio with Billie Holiday, who recorded with pianist Teddy Wilson and key members of the Basie band such as Jo Jones and Buck Clayton. | | | From the day in 1936 when Young first entered the recording studio with the Count Basie band, the tenor saxophone acquired two contrasting voices, and this duality has continued down to the present day. |
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http://www.thejazzfiles.com/JazzYoung.htm
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| | Prez & Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday and Lester Young |
| | Tenor saxophonist Lester Young came from a musical New Orleans family. | | | I loved his music; my favorite recordings are the ones I made with Lester. | | | As a ten-year-old boy, Lester was the drummer in his father's carnival band, traveling through the Midwest playing tent shows. |
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| | Lester Young Quartet Alternative Lester - Buy used cds, rare vinyl records, LPs and music albums |
| | Lester Young Quartet Alternative Lester - Buy used cds, rare vinyl records, LPs and music albums | | | Buy rare Lester Young Quartet Alternative Lester Vinyl Records, Hard to Find CDs & Out-of-Print LPs and Albums | | | buy cds by lester young quartet, rare records, vinyl music, LPs, CD's, imports, videos, posters, out of print, used lester young quartet cds |
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| | Lester Young -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Discusses the artist's role in the evolution of jazz, and the significant musicians featured in the album, such as Dizzy Gillespie, and Lester Young. | | | As a featured soloist with Count Basie (1939–48), he incorporated some of Lester Young's innovative melodic and harmonic concepts; he then led a popular band at the... | | | 17, 2002, Pittsburgh), was a teenaged musician in top swing bands (Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, and Artie Shaw) before he became one of the first pianists to master the complexities of bebop; he played modern harmonies and fluent melodies in classic recordings by Lester Young and Charlie Parker, and he also... |
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| | You Got to Be Original, Man!: The Music of Lester Young (Greenwood Publishing Group) doi:10.1336/0313265143 |
| | This discography of Lester Young's recordings details 251 recording sessions listing title of piece, personnel, date and place of recording, label, matrix numbers, and more. | | | Included are notations for over 80 great Young solos and excerpts for many more written for a B flat instrument so that musicians can "play along with" their Lester Young recordings. | | | You Got to Be Original, Man!: The Music of Lester Young |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1336/0313265143
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| | Tony Thomas's Lester Young Page |
| | Two of Lester's greatest Sessions outside the Basie Band during his Basie years are his 1938 and 1944 "Kansas City" sessions recorded by Commodore Records. | | | Eddie Durham's guitar work on the 1938 recordings include some of the first, if not the first, electric standard guitar recordings in Jazz or any other form of music. | | | A good online biography of Lester Young is available at the All Music Guide's Lester Young Biography. |
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| | Lester Young Recordings on CD with track list |
| | Lester Young Recordings on CD with track list | | | The following is a list of CDs which cover most of Lester Young's recordings. | | | Lester Young with Count Basie - Live Recordings |
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| | Buy.com - Lester Young Trio - Lester Young - CD |
| | The trio portion of this album is especially lush and intriguing, featuring wonderful renditions of Young's original, "Back to the Land," Gershwin's "The Man I Love," and a duet version of the gorgeous ballad, "Peg O' My Heart" (Rich had gone out to get something to eat). | | | Cole's intimate piano style wonderfully complements Young's light, airy tone and unorthodox phrasing, and Rich, known for a flashy approach, plays quite sensitively here, using brushes on most tunes. | | | Following 10 tracks by this unique trio, we are treated to four additional tunes as performed by a sextet led by Young. |
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| | Billie Holiday With Lester Young, MP3 Music Download at eMusic |
| | Often bored by the tired old Tin Pan Alley songs she was forced to record early in her career, Holiday fooled around with the beat and the melody, phrasing behind the beat and often rejuvenating the standard melody with harmonies borrowed from her favorite horn players, Armstrong and Lester Young. | | | More than technical ability, more than purity of voice, what made Billie Holiday one of the best vocalists of the century -- easily the equal of Ella Fitzgerald or Frank Sinatra -- was her relentlessly individualist temperament, a quality that colored every one of her endlessly nuanced performances. | | | One year later, the Lady in Satin LP clothed her naked, increasingly hoarse voice with the overwrought strings of Ray Ellis. |
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| | Verve Jazz Masters 30 by Lester Young CD |
| | Young's cool-toned, behind-the-beat phrasing is in evidence on all 15 tracks, from the Latin inflected "In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This)," through the relaxed swing of "Peg O' My Heart," to the uptempo bounce of "All of Me." This CD sizzles with great jazz performances | | | Verve Jazz Masters 30 by Lester Young CD Artist | | | Personnel includes: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Nat "King" Cole, Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson, Hank Jones (piano); Barney Kessel (guitar); Gene Ramey (bass); Jo Jones, Buddy Rich (drums). |
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| | The Bebop Shop Lester Young |
| | Definitive edition of the complete Lester Young recordings for the Savoy label made between 1944-49. (Definitive Records) | | | The complete Commodore, Signature & Keynote sessions (master takes). Definitive edition of the recordings made by Lester Young in 1938-44 for the legendary Commodore, Signature and Keynote labels. (Definitive Records) | | | Lester Young: The Lester Young Story (CD: Proper, 4 CDs) |
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| | Lester Young |
| | Young first studied violin, trumpet, and drums in a family band that was led by his father and toured with carnivals and other shows. | | | The Billy Young Band(1920-27), Art Bronson's Bostonians(1927-29),Walter Page's Blue Devils(1930-31), Bennie Moten's Band(1933), Count Basie Orchestra(1934)Fletcher Henderson Band(1934), Count Basie Orchestra(1936-40), Lester Young Band(1940-2), Count Basie(1943-4), Jazz at the Philharmonic(1946-9), guest appearances with Basie's Band(1952-7) | | | Young then moved to Los Angeles to lead a band with his brother Lee which went on to play at New York's Café Society in September 1942. |
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| | Even if Lester and Billie weren't performing together in the last track of this tape, the idea of pairing them up in the same volume of the "Jazz and Jazz Video Collection" would be a good one. | | | She alternates her vocal parts with beautiful solos by great people like Hawkins, Eldridge, Webster and Mulligan but she reaches the top when she sings after Lester Young's solo. | | | Billie Holiday (vocal); Roy Eldridge, Doc Cheatham (trumpet); Vic Dickenson (trombone); Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster (tenor sax); Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax); Mal Waldron (piano); Danny Barker (guitar); Milt Hinton (bass); Jo Jones (drums). |
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| | Jazzscript.co.uk - LESTER YOUNG : LIFELINE |
| | A multi-instrumentalist, he settles on the tenor saxophone and plays with the family band until 1927; thereafter he tours with several bands, including those of Walter Page and his Blue Devils, Bennie Moten, Andy Kirk, and briefly replaces Coleman Hawkins in the Fletcher Henderson band. | | | His own early idol was Frankie Trumbauer, from whom he learnt both a light dry sound and a sense of form. | | | Lester Young was the musical bridge that connected Hawkins and Charlie Parker, and although he was firmly rooted in the swing era, he was to have a telling influence on the saxophonists who came of age in the 1950s, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. |
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| | Lester Young - Taxi War Dance - Last.fm |
| | Of all 897 people that have listened to songs by Lester Young, this represents 2.8%. | | | 25 people have listened to Taxi War Dance by Lester Young. | | | Lester Young - Taxi War Dance - Last.fm |
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| | Lester Young |
| | While he recorded some his finest material with Basie, he didn't record all of his finest recordings with Count. | | | They dueled all night and into the next morning. | | | He came back a fine player, but his light, airy, happy tone had left and his music had a darker side to it. |
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| | Lester Young - Topix.net |
| | Comments: All of the vinyl played tonight, Lester Young, David Newman, Sonny Stitt and Dizzy Gillespie, is from the Conley collection. | | | Jazz albums to be reissued under Koch label | | | LESTER YOUNG Since 1965, jazz and religion have formed a literal crossroads at the Jazz Ministry of St. |
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| | 8912721JB - Lester Young - Volume Seven 1945 - 1946 - Audio CD |
| | With great music, including "Sweet Georgia Brown", Lester Young has provided you with a recording you'll certainly treasure. | | | 8912721JB - Lester Young - Volume Seven 1945 - 1946 - Audio CD Search | | | Lester Young - Volume Seven 1945 - 1946 |
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| | Lester Young |
| | Complete Lester Young Sessions on Verve (disc 4) | | | The Lester Young Story (disc 4: Ding Dong) | | | The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve (Disc Six) |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Barney Kessel, 'Mr. Guitar,' dies at 80 |
| | But his impact also extended to the many classic songs he recorded with everyone from Elvis Presley ("Return to Sender"), the Righteous Brothers ("You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling") and the Beach Boys, whose landmark "Pet Sounds" album prominently featured his impeccable guitar work. | | | Barney Kessel's reputation as one of the greatest guitarists jazz has ever known dates back to his seminal 1944 recordings with Billie Holiday, Art Tatum and Lester Young. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Lester Young |
| | From 1940 he led his own small combo and toured extensively with Jazz at the Philharmonic, a concert group organized by the American impresario Norman Granz. | | | One of the greatest tenor saxophonists of all time, Young was known for his spare, laconic sound. | | | Born in Woodville, Mississippi, he played with various groups before joining the orchestra of Count Basie in 1936. |
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| | Lester Young Story [Proper Box, 4 CDs] |
| | The 85 tracks on this CD box set tell the story of one of jazz's greatest story-tellers. | | | Along with Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, Lester Young was the most influential jazz musician in the history of jazz. | | | There was a laid back lilt to his improvistaions strengthened by his legato approach. |
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| | Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions On Verve by Lester Young CD |
| | THE COMPLETE LESTER YOUNG STUDIO SESSIONS ON VERVE was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Boxed Recording Package and for Best Album Notes. | | | Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions On Verve by Lester Young CD Artist | | | Entertainment Weekly (1/14/00, p.79) - "...[Young] mostly doled out spry, bittersweet wisdom, with timeless, inventive phrasing....a dramatic jazz saga told compellingly on this accessible package." - Rating: A- JazzTimes (4/00, pp.88-92) - "...Music whose beauty and individuality transcends most jazz played during his career and most played since... |
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| | Lester Young and The Oscar Peterson Trio - Hotel Resource Book Store |
| | Store Home / Music / Lester Young and The Oscar Peterson Trio | | | Pres was 43 years old and still playing like mad. | | | by Lester Young and the Oscar Peterson Trio |
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| | Lester Young/Roy Eldridge/Harry Edison Laughin' to Keep from Cryin' |
| | Critics and Lester Young fans have long debated the relative worth of this album. | | | Two tracks are previously unreleased: a jam-session-style take of “Mean to Me” and a three-part ballad medley that features each horn player in turn. | | | One thing’s for sure: It would be a poor introduction for those not familiar with Lester’s work. |
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| | USATODAY.com - New on DVD |
| | A better DVD than a previous release, this two-disc set has featurettes plus interviews or portraits of the 57. | | | Back story: After one acclaimed but quickly canceled TV series (The Westerner) and one cheapie feature that quickly disappeared from drive-ins, Sam Peckinpah got a boost from a great casting brainstorm. | | | A young director, two classy old-school Western stars and an instant classic. |
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| | 'Easy Does It 1936-1940' by Lester Young from The Portsmouth Chorus. |
| | Audio CD: Lester Young: Easy Does It 1936-1940 | | | For counselling books see A Counselling Secret and for discounted electronics see Discounted Electronics. | | | 'Easy Does It 1936-1940' by Lester Young from The Portsmouth Chorus. |
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| | Lester Young at harlem.org : explore jazz history through Art Kane's photograph |
| | In 1934 he played in Count Basie's band for the first time. | | | Lester Young's original style of saxophone playing combined the light sounds of Jimmy Dorsey with the alternative fingerings and effects to create a darker, bluesier tone. | | | Hundreds of sax players have copied his style or mentioned him as a primary influence. |
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| | Lester Young |
| | His last days of music were spent in Paris. | | | Lester Young, the Prez (nickname given him by Billie Holiday) not only had the most exquisite tone to ever come out of a saxophone, but an unusual way of holding the horn. | | | He was a secretive and ironic character, tender and frustrated. |
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| | ttgapers.com store - Pres: The Story of Lester Young - Luc Delannoy - Product Details |
| | Simply by relating Young's life story, Delannoy leaves no doubt that major emotional crises transformed Pres from a hard working young musician with a sunny outlook into a paranoid who developed his already eccentric behavior and language as defense mechanisms. | | | Delannoy's biography brings together most of the information that can be verified about the life of Young and melds it with a poetic appreciation of his importance as an artist and his suffering as a human being. | | | Delannoy's strenght as a biographer is in making it clear that the gifts left by Young's genius transcend his bedeviled life |
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| | Lester Young on Msn Music |
| | Lester Young Fan Favorites Radio (Exclusive to Radio Plus - try it free today) |
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| | Buy.com - No Eyes: Lester Young : David Meltzer : ISBN 1574231308 |
| | Poet David Meltzer, also a jazz critic and a musician himself, brings the wisdom of all his trades to this series of poems about Lester Young, celebrated saxophonist. | | | Chosen by the San Francisco Chronicle as a favorite poetry collection of 2000. | | | Save up to 40% on these nominees voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. |
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| | NPR : Clarinetist and Composer Don Byron |
| | Fresh Air from WHYY, February 21, 2005 · With his latest CD, Ivey Divey, bandleader Don Byron pays homage to saxophonist Lester Young. | | | Don Byron has been active in the studio and out, playing at festivals and special sessions. |
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| | BookkooB : Lester Young |
| | A Lester Young Reader (Smithsonian Readers in American Music S.) | | | Please take a moment to tell us what you think of this site... |
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