On This Day in Jazz History

September 5, 1939: Count Basie's Kansas City Seven records "Lester Leaps In," featuring tenor saxophonist Lester Young.

Added: 2008-08-11

More facts on this day:

1928
Trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff born in Frankfurt, Germany.

1939
Count Basie's Kansas City Seven records "Lester Leaps In," featuring tenor saxophonist Lester Young.

1940
Duke Ellington records "In a Mellotone."

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