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Lester Young and ‘Oh! Lady be Good’

July 4, 2013 3 Comments
Lester Young and ‘Oh! Lady be Good’

At 10 o’clock in the morning of Monday 9 November 1936 – an unlikely day and an even unlikelier hour for jazz musicians – five people assembled in the studios of the American Record Corporation in Chicago.  They played just four short pieces.  Two of them, the first appearance of Lester Young on record, constitute […]

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