Lester Leaps In by Douglas H Daniels

Lester Leaps In by Douglas H Daniels

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

Douglas Henry Daniels is a professor of black studies and history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of Lester Leaps In and Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco. He lives in Santa Barbara.

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ISBN 13	9780807071250
ISBN 10	0807071250
Titel	Lester Leaps In
Autor	Douglas H Daniels
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Beacon Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-02-17
Seitenanzahl	536
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