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Il y a 7 heures · The young boppers, along with several leading swing performers, notably Lester Young and Billie Holiday from the Count Basie band, chafed at the minstrelsy-tinged dynamics of the music business, with its image of the musician as a happy-go-lucky servant-entertainer rather than a serious and challenging artist.
Il y a 5 jours · Though credited to Basie, “One O’Clock Jump” owed a lot to individual members. Their original 1937 recording of the song, for instance, featured such stellar musicians as saxophonists Evans and Lester Young, trumpeter Buck Clayton, bassist Walter Page, and Basie himself on piano.
Il y a 3 jours · Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.
Il y a 3 jours · About 1940 she began to perform exclusively in cabarets and in concert. Her recordings between 1936 and 1942 marked her peak years. During that period she was often associated with saxophonist Lester Young, who gave her the nickname “Lady Day.”
Il y a 2 jours · Lester Young. Lester Young, ... to prominence in the 1930s as a member of the Count Basie Orchestra, ... inventive improvisational style helped shape the course of jazz during its formative years.
Il y a 3 jours · From Spirituals to Swing was the title of two concerts presented by John Hammond in Carnegie Hall on 23 December 1938 and 24 December 1939. The concerts included performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, Helen Humes, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Mitchell's Christian Singers, the Golden Gate Quartet, James P. Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Terry.
Il y a 4 jours · By 1958, when this album was first released, the tenor's tenure was fast completing his third decade as one of the preeminent saxophone statesmen along with Lester Young—both men early in their career, enjoying stomping stints with Kansas City's Count Basie, and acting as counterweights to the tenor madness of a Coltrane or a Rollins.
