Lester Young, the legendary tenor sax player known as "Pres,"
created earth-shattering music for nearly 25 years. Now for the
first time, the many "Presophiles" around the globe and kindred
jazz aficionados will have access to a complete guide to Young's
recorded legacy in this exhaustive discography. This companion
volume to Buchmann-Moller's You Just Fight for Your Life, the
longest and most accurate biography of Young's life to date,
details 251 recording sessions. Listed chronologically, each
session has its own introduction that contains title, personnel,
date and place of recording, record label, discographical
information with matrix numbers, the number of the newest or most
complete release of the actual session, and, where applicable,
whether recording is from concert, radio, or TV. The solography
lists every solo played by Young, published or unpublished, and
contains some newly discovered items including critical assessments
of the solos, in many cases illustrated by the author's own
transcriptions of the improvisations. Each solo analysis contains
song title, form, and the number of takes followed by a listing of
the personnel and individual soloists. Included here are notations
for over 80 great Young solos and excerpts for many more written
for a B flat instrument so that musicians can "play along with"
their Lester Young recordings. Access to musicians and song titles
is facilitated by a song index and a name index that keys items to
the numbered sessions, and an index of the transcribed solos refer
to the page(s) where the solos are to be found. Musicians, fans,
students, and scholars of music and jazz, as well as the general
reader with an interest in jazz will find YouGot to be Original,
Man! with its complete solography and companion biography, You Just
Fight for Your Life to be the most comprehensive introduction of
the man and his music available.
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