Lester Young – Biografia, discografia e strumenti

Biografia

Lester Young è stato un musicista jazz (sassofono, clarinetto e sassofono tenore). Nato il 27 agosto 1909 a Woodville, morto il 15 marzo 1959 a New York. Lo stile è di solito associato a jazz. Etichette: Verve Records, Savoy Records, Commodore Records e Original Jazz Classics. La discografia qui comprende 42 album, da «Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio #1» (1954) a «Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?» (2024). Tra i riconoscimenti: Grammy Hall of Fame Award (2004).

Lester Willis Young, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di Prez (Woodville, 27 agosto 1909 – New York, 15 marzo 1959), è stato un sassofonista statunitense. È famoso per il suo personalissimo stile come solista e per aver costituito un modello musicale per generazioni di jazzisti, sia quelli che avrebbero dato l'avvio al movimento bebop sia quelli che avrebbero definito il successivo cool jazz.

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Discografia

Album in studio e dal vivo

Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio #1 1954 · Norgran Records Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #2 1954 · Norgran Records The President 1954 · Norgran Records Pres and Sweets 1955 · Norgran Records Le Dernier Message de Lester Young 1959 · Barclay In Washington, D.C. 1956, Volume One 1980 · Live · Pablo Jumpin' At The Savoy Ballroom 1984 · Live · Audiofidelity Enterprises, Inc. The Savoy Recordings 1984 · Savoy Jazz

Carnegie Blues 1985 · Live

The Complete Lester Young 1987 · Mercury Records Prez Conferences 1989 · Jass Records The Savoy Recordings, Vol 1 1989 · Vogue Jazz Immortal Series - Volume 2 - The Pres 1992 · Savoy Jazz The Jazz Giants 1992 · Verve Lester Young Trio 1994 · Verve In Washington D.C., 1956 Volume Three 1996 · Live · Pablo In Washington, D.C. 1956 Volume Two 1996 · Live · Pablo Jazz At The Philarmonic-Frankfurt 1952 1997 · Live · Pablo Lady Be Good 1997 · Jazz Time In Washington, D.C. 1956, Vol. 4 1998 · Pablo In Washington, D.C. 1956, Vol. 5 1998 · Original Jazz Classics In Washington, D.C., 1956, Volume 4 1998 · Live Blue Lester 2000 · Dreyfus Jazz Laughin' to Keep From Cryin' 2000 · Verve

Live! from the Royal Roost 2000

Easy Does It 2001 · Past Perfect Silver Line Live at the Birdland 2001 · Live · Past Perfect Prez In Europe 2002 · HighNote Records, Inc. The Complete Savoy Recordings 2002 · Savoy Jazz Timeless Lester Young 2003 · Savoy Jazz

Blue Lester: The One and Only 2005

Live at Birdland 2007 · ESP‐Disk’ Boston 1950 2013 · Live · Uptown Records All That Jazz, Vol. 73: Lester Young "Exercises in Swing" 2016 · Jube Legends Four Classic Albums (Second Set) 2018 · Avid Entertainment Lester Leaps In 2018 · 2xHD Don't You Know Who I Think I Am? 2024 · Nagel Heyer Records

Hooray For Lester Young Vol. 1

Hooray For Lester Young Vol. 2

Lester Young

Queen Disc #1

The President (Vol. 5)

Suona anche in

Album in cui Lester Young compare come sideman

1946	Bird & Pres at JAPT — Bird & Pres	tenor saxophone
1960	The Drum Battle — Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich	tenor saxophone
1974	Meets The Master Saxes - Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet — Nat Cole	tenor saxophone
1984	Jazz at the Philharmonic - Carnegie Hall 1949 — Bird & Pres	tenor saxophone
1991	All Night Session!, Volume 3 — Hampton Hawes	producer
1994	Listen... You Shall Hear — Count Basie	tenor saxophone, clarinet
1995	Love Me or Leave Me — Billie Holiday	tenor saxophone
1996	All Night Session — Hampton Hawes	producer
1997	One Night Stand: The Town Hall Concert 1947 — Sarah Vaughan & Lester Young	tenor saxophone
1998	Gershwin Jazz — George Gershwin	tenor saxophone
1998	Swingsation — Count Basie	clarinet, tenor saxophone
2014	The Lester Young-Buddy Rich Trio with Nat "King" Cole — Lester Young-Buddy Rich Trio & Nat King Cole	tenor saxophone
2024	At The Piano — Count Basie	clarinet, tenor saxophone

Standard scritti da Lester Young

Titolo	Tonalità	Forma	Groove
Jumpin With Symphony Sid	Si♭ maggiore	A · 12	swing medio
Tickle-Toe	Re♭ maggiore	ABAB · 32	swing veloce

Assoli analizzati di Lester Young

Dickie's Dreamtenor saxophone · 229 BPM · C-min · 1939-09-05
Lester Leaps Intenor saxophone · 251 BPM · Bb-maj · 1939-09-05
Body and Soultenor saxophone · 79 BPM · Db-maj · 1942-07-15
After Theatre Jumptenor saxophone · 176 BPM · Db-maj · 1944-03-22
Destination K.C.tenor saxophone · 246 BPM · C-maj · 1944-03-22
Six Cats and a Princetenor saxophone · 220 BPM · Bb-maj · 1944-03-22
D.B. Bluestenor saxophone · 151 BPM · Bb-maj · 1945-12-01

Premi

2004 Grammy Hall of Fame Award

Dischi storici a 78 giri

Norman Granz' JAZZ at the Philharmonic Charlie Ventura · John Birks · Billy Hadnott · Lee Young · Myer ·… archive.org ↗
Norman Granz' JAZZ at the Philharmonic - Vol. 2 John Birks · Lee Young · Billy Hadnott · Charlie Parker · Shoeless… archive.org ↗
LESTER LEAPS IN, Pt. I Jack McVea · Illinois Jacquet · J. J. Johnson · "Shorty" Nadine ·… archive.org ↗
Norman Granz' JAZZ at the Philharmonic - Vol. 3 Howard McGhee · Arnold Ross · Lee Young · Charlie Parker · NORMAN… archive.org ↗
JUMP FOR ME COUNT BASIE AND HIS ORCH. · Ed Lewis · Harry Edison · Buck Clayton ·… archive.org ↗
THE WORLD IS MAD COUNT BASIE'S ORCHESTRA · Lester Young · Buddy Tate · Ed Lewis, H… archive.org ↗
LADY BE GOOD LESTER YOUNG · COUNT BASIE'S KANSAS CITY SEVEN · Lester Young · Carl… archive.org ↗
THE WORLD IS MAD COUNT BASIE'S ORCHESTRA · Lester Young · Buddy Tate · Ed Lewis, H… archive.org ↗

Domande frequenti

Che strumento suonava Lester Young?

Lester Young è noto per sassofono, clarinetto e sassofono tenore.

Quando e dove è nato Lester Young?

Lester Young è nato 27 agosto 1909 a Woodville.

Quali sono gli album più noti di Lester Young?

Nel nostro archivio ci sono, tra gli altri, Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio #1 (1954), Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #2 (1954), The President (1954), Pres and Sweets (1955) e Le Dernier Message de Lester Young (1959).

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