So exquisite. Pres influenced almost every tenor sax player who player after him. Louis, Pres, Dizzy, Bird, Miles and Trane: to become immortal, just be the best at one instrument in one genre during an entire century.
Lester is the greatest in spontaneous melodic Invention and avoiding Clichees, Phrases Licks, however you may call it- Therefore he is so different from all the other famous Players.
I just cryed a lot now... Lester was to celebrate the sensitive man, the less strong one, u know what i mean.. i have a PRES tatoo in my arm, he means sweetnes to me.
This looks and sounds like an outake from the "Sound of Jazz" documentary. Lester was not well and missed several performances that were part of the taping and maybe they cut this from it.