This tribute to Lester (Prez) can bring a tear to my eye - great performance by Charlie and the band! I found the impact of Lester Young's aesthetic vision (as opposed to his behavior) almost everywhere. He influenced the West Coast movement of the 1950s and Tristano and Konitz of the East Coast ...
That is the one and only Grady Tate on drums and vocals - Grady makes an annual trek to Durham, NC for a jazz festival - Grover is gone, but by no means forgotten...
Chan was incorrectly identified as " Mrs. Thelonious Monk".
Chan Richardson Parker was Charlie "Bird" Parker's wife. Chan died in a hospital in Etampes, France September 9, 1999: after 74 years of a life filled with all that Jazz....
Sigma who?