cciii. YOUNG, Lester (1909-1959)
from The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young.
"'Prez got that soft tone, so different from Coleman Hawkins' because that's the way he wanted everything in life,' a former Lester Young sideman told me years ago. 'I got him a pair of shoes once, and one day I came in and found them in the wastebasket. Then I realized they were hard-soled shoes, and he would always wear moccasins or slippers. It had to be soft and gentle or Prez wanted no part of it.'" -- Leonard Feather
Just an "easy" blues with a thump-thump on one and two in the second chorus -- then Lester goes to town.
Listen to the statement at 1:28! What a phrase, composed from the air around him!
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