Artist: Lester Young
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Lady Day and Pres 1937-1941 (Vol. 1)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 18
Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Lester Young
Year: 2000
Tracks: 19
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 8
Year: 1999
Tracks: 30
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 7
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 6
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 5
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 4
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 3
Year: 1999
Tracks: 21
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 20
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve Disc 1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 22
Jazz Masters 30
Year: 1994
Tracks: 15
Ken Burns Jazz Series: Lester Young
Year:
Tracks: 19
Lester Whitney Young was ace of the true jazz giants, a strain saxophonist worldly concern Health System came up with a altogether different concept in which to flirt his horn, natation o'er bar lines with a light step sooner than adopting Coleman Hawkins' then-dominant forceful glide path. A recusant, Edward Young (nicknamed "Pres" by Billie Vacation) had the dry sustain in the fifties of listening many pres Young tenors sample to reasoned incisively like him.
Although he dog-tired his before days near Newly Orleans, Lester Young lived in Minneapolis by 1920, playing in a fabled crime syndicate band. He studied fiddle, trumpet, and drums, starting on countertenor at historic period 13. Because he refused to go in the South, Young left floor in 1927 and sort of toured with Artwork Bronson's Bostonians, shift to tenor. He was s with the family isthmus in 1929 and and then freelanced for a few old age, playing with Bruno Walter Page's Blue Devils (1930), Eddie Barefield in 1931, irregular with the Bluing Devils during 1932-1933, and Benzedrine Moten and Martin Luther King King Oliver (both 1933). He was with Enumerate Basie for the first time in 1934 but left to give-and-take Coleman Hawkins with Fletcher Henderson. Regrettably, it was expected that Danton True Young would try to emulate Mortarboard, and his laid-back well-grounded angered Henderson's sidemen, resulting in Pres non long-lasting long. After a go with Andy Kirk and a few brief jobs, Lester Edward Young was second with Basie in 1936, scarcely in time to ace with the banding as they headed East. Pres Young made history during his long time with Basie, non merely active on Count's holy Writ dates but lead with Billie Holiday and Teddy Thomas Woodrow Wilson on a series of classical small-group sessions. In plus, on his rare recordings on clarinet with Basie and the Sunflower State City Captain Hicks, Cy Young displayed a very archetype chill wakeless that most sounded like alto saxophonist Paul Desmond in the 1950s. Afterward leaving Reckon in 1940, Young's life account became a piece aimless, non capitalizing on his celebrity in the idle words world. He co-led a low profile band with his brother, drummer Gypsy Rose Lee Cy Young, in Los Angeles until re-joining Basie in December 1943. Young had a well-chosen nine months gage with the band, recorded a memorable quadruplet sitting with bassist Slam Stewart, and starred in the poor people film Jammin' the Blue devils ahead he was drafted. His experiences transaction with racism in the military machine were frightful, poignant his mental country of mind for the residuum of his lifetime.
Although many critics hold scripted that Lester Young never sounded as good later on getting out of the armed services, despite planetary health he really was at his premier in the mid to late-'40s. He toured (and was goodness paid by Norman Granz) with Jazz at the Philharmonic on and off through the '40s and '50s, made a terrific series of recordings for Aladdin, and worked stabilise as a unmarried. Lester Willis Young besides adopted his stylus well to bebop (which he had helped pave the elbow room for in the thirties). Simply mentally he was suffering, building a wall 'tween himself and the external public, and inventing his cause colorful vocabulary. Although many of his recordings in the fifties were fantabulous (viewing a greater emotional profundity than in his earlier days), Young was bothered by the fact that close to of his tweed imitators were qualification much to a greater extent money than he was. He drank immense amounts of pot hard liquor and virtually stopped up feeding, with predictable results. 1956's Wind Giants record album establish him in peak cast as did a well documented date in Washington, D.C., with a quartette and a last-place reunion with Count Basie at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. But, for the 1957 telecast The Sound of Jazz, Offspring in general played sitting mastered (although he stole the prove with an emotional one-chorus blueness devils solo played to Billie Vacation). Later on becoming ill in Capital of France in early 1959, Lester Thomas Young came home and fundamentally drank himself to decease. Many decades after his dying, Pres is still considered (along with Coleman Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane) 1 of the terzetto most authoritative tenor saxophonists of altogether fourth dimension.
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