Jazz Saxophonist Lester Young: Was Never The Same After His Stint In The Military 

My favorite Lester Young quote. "Playing good music to a good audience is the most fun you can legally have with your close on."

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You have the perfect voice for discussing jazz or documentaries in general. Good audio quality for your videos too.

I love your channel, been on a binge. Thanks so much onetrackjazz*

How nice to hear about Lester, one of my idols along with Billie Holiday and John hammond🇦🇺🇨🇱

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Thanks, very well done. You do good work.

Lester was a fine clarinet player. Examples can be heard with the Basie band on air checks..

I love the videos, thank you so much for making these

I think all artists should strive to create original art. I see a lot of talk on RU-vid about needing to transcribe and copy to “learn the language”. Was Lester Young spending all his time trying to transcribe Coleman Hawkins or whoever else was in his era? The reason why people talk about Lester Young still is because he was unique.

Wait, this was only uploaded a month ago? Da fuq? I just found Lester Young via Mingus. And now find this upload. Life is wild.

Amazing video. Any chance we can see one on Basie?

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I want an Eric Dolphy video next, please! ☺

Very nice song in the video, what’s it called?

Lester was the inspiration of white saxophonists in the 40's and 50's , Getz , Cooper , Sims , Eager and most European Tenorists. The main man for Black players was Coleman Hawkins , who preferred the harder sound . Including John Coltrane , who has in my opinion been the most influential Sax player since Charlie Parker. Its rare to hear a Jazzman playing like Lester today . Personally I find the soft Anemic tone of Getz off putting , Rollins , Coltrane , Ervin , Adams have a far more expansive range in their playing , just an opinion .

His work with Oscar Peterson is first-rate. He may have been "in decline" after the US Army, but there was nothing in decline about the Peterson sessions.

He called white people “greys” and called policemen “ Oxford greys” he called his fingers , my people 😊