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Count Basie & His Orch. 1938 Randall's Island NYC

Lester Young is featured here. If you look closely you might see violinist Stuff Smith in the audience clapping along and guitarist Teddy Bunn on the side lines diggin' the band.  
 

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feedboi (7 hours ago) Show Hide
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Love Prez's shades..Probably the earliest he ever got up...
drumstyx6464 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I always wondered why lester held his sax that way, i can't bear to have my sax anything but adjusted to me
316StSt (4 days ago) Show Hide
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I read somewhere that he held his sax at an angle because he got so used to practising sitting up in bed, that he became comfortable holding the sax this way all the time. Don't know how true that is, but I'd love it to be true!
gcrav (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Lester at his best. Basie at his best. America at its best.
88esquire (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Sorry, I meant "I Got Rhythm".
88esquire (3 months ago) Show Hide
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I believe previous viewers have pointed out that this soundless video of the Randall's Island performance uses Lester's studio-recorded solo on "Every Tub" .
88esquire (3 months ago) Show Hide
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To all you Lesterpeople: Can you dig it? It's Lester's centennial birthday next week, August 27.  Ivey-divey. My President is Lester Young.
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Lester Young is my main man! Lester is the one that inspired me to pick up the tenor sax a few years ago, and I'm only in my mid-20s. Prez, you were the best!
ner1971 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Great! That's so cool to hear a young guy inspired by Lester enough to start playing the tenor these days. Good luck to you,
jazmaan (7 months ago) Show Hide
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Actually a close inspection shows pretty clearly that the black and white revelers were mostly in their own separate sections. But the shared love of black rhythm permeates throughout. I just wish white and black people today had that JOY for good jazz.

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