Savoy’s complete compilation travels through two and a half hours of Lester Young’s studio sessions and rehearsal time. There are several takes for many of the numbers, and the listener has the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the first time since his mother died, Lester Young sat in his cell and cried. "I remember getting really emotional," said Young. "I never really cried when my mom passed away, so ...

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 ...

In his little-known but undeniably wise 1924 short story, “The Sensible Thing,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that there are all kinds of loves in the world, but never the same love twice. On Valentine’s ...

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 ...

Lester Thomas L.T. Young of Surfside Beach, S.C., died Monday, January 3, 2005, in his home. Born September 29, 1928, in West Easton, he was the son of the late Lester and Mary (Klein) Young. He was ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. When Billie Holiday nicknamed Lester ...