Lester Young (Jazz Perspectives)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472089226 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Good analysis 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 be. C. CRADDOCK said The Musical Mind of Lester Willis Young. This is a great book if you want to try to understand Prez. There are tons of transcribed solos, and you can listen and read along--or even better--play along. All examples are in Bb transcription, so you can play along on your own Tenor Sax.Take for example the solo he did with Count Basie on Lady, Be Good. It is something new, something he created, it sounds like a real breakthrough, like music has been pushed to a new level. Worthy of further study. O. Jim Brown said Lewis Porter Scores Again With a Great Book About Prez and His Music. I've read and enjoyed several of Lewis Porter's books, including his Coltrane biography and "The Lester Young Reader," so when I saw a used paperback copy this book in a local bookstore, I jumped at it. I agree with others that this is a really fine analysis of Prez's style and musical techniques. Prez has been my man since first discovering him in my college years, and I've tried to chase down of of his recordings that I know of. I'm a listener, not a m
Praise for Lester Young:"a schematic of unparalleled insight and detail."---Down Beat"A monumental work."---Dizzy Gillespie"a major contribution to jazz scholarship for its illumination of Lester Young's music and for setting the biographical record straight."---Dan MorgensternSeveral 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
. He has served as professor of music at Rutgers University in Newark since 1986, and he is the university's founder and director of the Master's Program in Jazz History and Research since 1997. About the Author Lewis Porter is a jazz pianist, composer, and author
Lewis Porter is a jazz pianist, composer, and author. He has served as professor of music at Rutgers University in Newark since 1986, and he is the university's founder and director of the Master's Program in Jazz History and Research since 1997.