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Lester Young: Centennial Celebration Lester Young

by Andrew Velez
Although he'd lived a scant 50 hard years when he died in 1959, tenor sax giant Lester Willis Young was and remains one of the most vital and influential forces in jazz. He used words as singularly as he played, dubbing Billie Holiday Lady Day"; theirs was an incomparable musical pairing and she returned the favor, ...