My Dad was a Lester Young fan. We have a double album of his stuff with Billie Holiday. Interesting fact about him I heard on Mickey Bradley's radio show is that he is considered the origin of the phrase 'cool' meaning fashionable and 'bread' meaning money. Some legacy.
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'In his book "The Swing Era," Gunther Schuller describes this telecast as "unquestionably the finest hour jazz has ever had on television." Schuller said of Lester's solo "here we have one of the truly profound moments in jazz. It stands as a monument to the music, beyond categorization and beyond analysis."'
