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Lester Willis Young, nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.
Young (left) in 1944
Young at the Famous Door, New York, c. September 1946. Photo by William P. Gottlieb.
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1954 studio album by American jazz saxophonist Lester Young, accompanied by Oscar Peterson's working trio of the time, plus drummer J. C. Heard. The musi
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…Festival, with a line-up including many of his 1940s colleagues: Jo Jones, Roy Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet and Jimmy Rushing. In 1952, he was featured on Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, released in 1954 on Norgran Records. In 1956, he recorded two LPs with his 1930s collaborators, Wilson and Jones. AllMusic's Scott Yanow, reviewing…
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