Results for "Lester Young"

Live at Birdland

By Lester Young

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Oh, Lady Be Good; A Foggy Day; In a Little Spanish Town; Lester Leaps In; Theme: Lullaby of Birdland; Announcement; Lester Leaps In; Announcement; Polkadots and Moonbeams; Up

Claude Pauly: Mind Meets Matter

by Ian Patterson
December 3, 2008

Legions of saxophonists were mesmerized by the sound of Lester Young and Charlie Parker and to this day, John Coltrane; for trumpeters, Miles Davis continues to ensnare many, and for fusion guitarists John McLaughlin and Allan Holdsworth continue to fascinate. As a bright light does moths, they are sucked in, and if not careful, their own ...

Curtis Fuller: Motor City Messenger

by Russ Musto
December 1, 2008

The most recorded jazz trombonist of his lifetime, Curtis Fuller's illustrious career spans six decades and includes tenures with many of the greatest names in this music. Born Dec. 15th, 1934 in Detroit, Fuller was orphaned at an early age, but found family in the close-knit jazz community of the musically fertile Motor City. He first ...

Lester Young: The Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940

by AAJ Staff
October 11, 2008

By Duck Baker No doubt most of the people buying this box know that the music it contains is necessary to any serious jazz collection (if not to life itself). But to spell it out for any who haven't got the word yet, Count Basie's pre-war band epitomized that core quality in jazz called ...

Announcing the Winner of the Mosaic Records "Lester Young/Count Basie" Giveaway!

September 25, 2008

Lester Young: Compatible Quotes and a Movie

September 8, 2008

Rifftides postings have been seldom lately because I'm working on a magazine piece about the resuscitation of Lester Young's tenor saxophone and the consequent revival of a band devoted to his music. More about that later. In the meantime, here's a set of thoughts from and about Prez. Well, the way I play, I try ...

Enter the Mosaic Records "Lester Young/Count Basie" Giveaway

August 25, 2008

All About Jazz readers are invited to join the Mosaic Records Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940 4-CD set giveaway starting today. We'll select one lucky winner at the conclusion of the contest on September 25th. Click here to enter the contest All contestants will join the Lester Young @ AAJ fan network and the winner will ...

The Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940 4CD Set on Mosaic Records

April 8, 2008

"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." --Stanley Dance Together “Pres" & Basie Began To Completely Reinvent Jazz Available at last: the most important collection imaginable from the legendary pairing of ...

Being Prez: The Life & Music of Lester Young

by J. Robert Bragonier
March 25, 2008

Being Prez: The Life & Music of Lester Young Dave Gelly Hardcover; 170 pages. ISBN: 978 0195334777 Oxford University Press 2008 A New History of Jazz, arguably the seminal jazz history text, was written in 2001 by Alyn Shipton, a Brit. ...

Lester Young: Live at Birdland

by Graham L. Flanagan
February 11, 2008

Whenever a label decides to blow the dust off of a live Lester Young recording, the results are unlikely to disappoint. Such is the case with Live at Birdland, which fits on one disc three different live radio broadcasts. The first of the three sets was recorded January 15, 1953 and broadcast on ...