Lester Young (Jazz Perspectives) by Lewis Porter Paperback Revised Edition

This listing is for Lester Young (Jazz Perspectives) by Lewis Porter Paperback Revised Edition.  

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Publication date: 2008

Edition: Revised

Language: English

Print length: 136 pages

ISBN-10: 0472089226

ISBN-13: 978-0472089222

Several new biographies of Lester Young have been published in the years since Lewis Porter's Lester Young first appeared, but none have supplanted or even attempted the in-depth study that Porter brings to his subject's music. With the same care and scholarship that characterized his John Coltrane, Porter analyzes the music that made Lester Young "the most original tenor sax in jazz." In addition to helping us understand Lester Young's playing and stylistic evolution, Porter's analysis demonstrates that Young's playing at the end of his career did not mark a serious decline over his earlier style, as many critics have claimed.

Briefly outlines the life of the tenor saxophonist, examines his recordings, and assesses his influence on modern jazz. If you want to understand what the musical elements are in Lester's hugely influential style, read this book and listen to every recording you can afford to lay hands on. Porter does a great job of transcribing and annotating several Young solos from different points in his career and explains with solid scholarship exactly what Young was doing and some of the whys. Porter is not among those who dismiss Lester's later work with the cliche about all the best stuff being before WWII. Instead he breaks Young's career into three periods and examines each fairly. Charlie Parker's idol and cited as a major influence by nearly every jazz saxophonist to follow him, Lester Young was indeed the President of the Saxophone.

Lewis Porter is Professor of Music and director of the M.A. Program in Jazz History and Research at Rutgers University. His book John Coltrane: His Life and Music won the 1999 Jazz Research Award from the Association of Recorded Sound Collections.

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