Lester Young

by Lewis Porter

Book Overview

Praise for "Lester Young": ." . . a schematic of unparalleled insight and detail."---"Down Beat" "A monumental work."---Dizzy Gillespie ." . . a major contribution to jazz scholarship . . . for its illumination of Lester Young's music and for setting the biographical record straight."---Dan Morgenstern Several new biographies of Lester Young have been published in the years since Lewis Porter's "Lester Young" first appeared, but none have supplanted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805794719
• ISBN13: 9780805794717
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.