Lester Young was the first jazz musician photographer Herb Snitzer captured with his camera. In fact, the image you see here of Young outside the Five Spot in New York is the first jazz photograph ...
This Valentine’s Day, listen to Billie Holiday and Lester Young’s collaborations to experience art truly made from a place of love, writes Colin Fleming.
A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: Murray, the Idiot's 30-second History of Jazz would have women singing the blues, trumpet players playing like women singing the blues, Louis Armstrong ...
"Irrespective of tempo, his melodic invention was always strange and haunting. On a jump number, he would impose a weird mood; a ballad was transformed into a nostalgic song, searching and mysterious.
Presidents’ Day is on Feb. 15 this year, and if you’re feeling a little burnt out on politics, I have the perfect solution. Instead of talking about Washington or Lincoln, let’s talk about tenor ...
In the line of tenor saxophone players who wind through modern jazz, the place of Lester Young is precious if not quite peerless. His smooth-as-silk solos in the Count Basie band of the late 1930s ...
Along with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, the legendary tenor saxophonist Lester Young is considered one of the seminal figures in the history of jazz. From his first recorded ...
He looked different, he played different, he was different. Lester Young stood out: green eyes, reddish hair that earned him the boyhood nickname “Red,” a porkpie hat, an ankle-length black coat, his ...
Larry Mantle talks with professor and author Douglas Daniels about the life and music of Lester Young as chronicled in his book Lester Leaps In (Beacon Press). Daniels focuses on Young's artistic ...