Name: Lester Leaps in: The Life and Times of Lester Pres Young (en Inglés)
Price: 21.70 EUR
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Author: Douglas H. Daniels
ISBN: 9780807071250

portada Lester Leaps in: The Life and Times of Lester Pres Young (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Beacon Press

Autor

Douglas H. Daniels

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

536

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

1.68

ISBN

0807071250

ISBN13

9780807071250

Categorías

Biografías
Estudios étnicos

Lester Leaps in: The Life and Times of Lester Pres Young (en Inglés)

Douglas H. Daniels (Autor) · Beacon Press · Tapa Blanda

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He was jazz's first hipster. He performed in sunglasses and coined and popularized phrases like "that's cool" and "you dig?" He always wore a suit and his trademark porkpie hat. He influenced everyone from B. B. King to Stan Getz to Allen Ginsberg, creating a lyrical style of playing that forever changed the sound of the tenor saxophone.In this groundbreaking biography of Lester Young (1909-1959), historian Douglas Daniels brings to life the man and his world, and corrects a number of misconceptions. Even though others have identified Young as a Kansas City musician, Daniels traces his roots to the blues of Louisiana and his early years traveling with his father's band and the legendary Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Later we see the jazz culture of New York in the early 1940s, when Young was launched to national and international fame with the Count Basie Orchestra and began to accompany his close friend Billie Holiday. After a year spent in an Army prison on a conviction for marijuana use, Young made changes in his music but never lost his sensitivity or soul. The first ever to gain access to Young's family and many musicians who performed with him, Daniels reconstructs the world in which Young lived and played: the racism that he and other black musicians faced, the feeling of home and family that they created together on the road, and what his music meant to black audiences. Young emerges as a kind friend, a loving parent, and a gentle and sensitive man who had, in the words of Reginald Scott, "the saddest eyes I ever saw