Being Prez —— The Life and Music of Lester Young

----- 成为普雷兹:莱斯特·杨的生活与音乐

ISBN: 9780195334777 出版年：2007 页码：186 Gelly, Dave Oxford University Press

In Being Prez, renowned British critic Dave Gelly follows Lester Young through his life in a rapidly changing world, showing how the music of this exceptionally sensitive man was shaped by his experiences. The reader meets a complicated, vulnerable, gentle individual who was brought up in his fathers traveling carnival band. Gelly, himself a jazz saxophonist, examines many of Lester's classic recordings in illuminating detail. He reveals how as a saxophonist--and as major contributor to the Count Basie band--Young created a strong personal voice, a cool modernism, and a new rhythmic flexibility in the freely dancing rhythms of 4-beat swing.