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Author : Lewis Porter
Release : 2005
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 222/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lester Young by : Lewis Porter
Download or read book Lester Young written by Lewis Porter. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the musical biography of jazz tenor saxophonist Lester Young, with a revised discography
Author : Dave Gelly
Release : 2007-10-18
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 495/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Being Prez by : Dave Gelly
Download or read book Being Prez written by Dave Gelly. This book was released on 2007-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Kansas City and the Southwest, and he made his landmark recording debut at the peak of the Swing Era. But at the height of his powers, he was drafted into the US Army, where racism and his own unworldliness landed him in military prison. Following these events, Young grew increasingly withdrawn and suspicious, changes in his character reflected in the darkening mood of his music. Gelly, himself a jazz saxophonist, examines many of Young's classic recordings in illuminating detail. He reveals how as a saxophonist--and as major contributor to the Count Basie band--Young created a strong personal voice, a cool modernism, and a new rhythmic flexibility in the freely dancing rhythms of 4-beat swing. With his sax jutting oddly to one side, his bizarre oblique use of language, and his unique musical rapport with Billie Holiday (who famously nicknamed him "Prez"), Lester Young has become an icon and a cult figure. This marvelous biography illuminates the life and work of this giant of jazz.
Author : David Meltzer
Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis No Eyes by : David Meltzer
Download or read book No Eyes written by David Meltzer. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic meditation on the last year of tenor saxophonist Lester Young's life, of joyful playing and self-willed dying. In 1959, at the age of fifty, jazz greaet Lester Young--a lyrical player, his airy tone haunted by a breathy melancholy--died alone in the Arvin Hotel in Manhattan. As Meltzer explains, "No Eyes is a book about death, and Young sits in for a metaphor for the artist living and dying for and with his art." An "inside" biography, No Eyes is a brilliant jazz-world evocation, composed in free verse whose flow is arrested to capture significant moments, Meltzer creates a layered narrative of vivid colors and textures, the material facts of Young's story dissolving into internalized, projected truths of erotic understanding and spiritual sympathy with the "sweet and isolate lovely other."
Author : Lester Young
Release : 2004-05-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 024/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lester Young Collection (Songbook) by : Lester Young
Download or read book The Lester Young Collection (Songbook) written by Lester Young. This book was released on 2004-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Artist Transcriptions). Nicknamed "Pres" by Billie Holiday (short for President of the Tenor Sax), jazz giant Lester Young is considered to be one of the most important and influential saxophonists of all time. This great tribute folio transcribes 30 of his finest standards, together with a bio and discography. Includes: Blue Lester * Cherokee * Doggin' Around * Honeysuckle Rose * I Can't Get Started with You * Indiana * Jumpin' with Symphony Sid * Lester Leaps In * Oh, Lady Be Good! * Sometimes I'm Happy * These Foolish Things * Twelfth Street Rag * You Can Depend on Me * more.
Author : Lewis Porter
Release : 1991-10-17
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Synopsis LESTER YOUNG RDR PB by : Lewis Porter
Download or read book LESTER YOUNG RDR PB written by Lewis Porter. This book was released on 1991-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
