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A Lester Young reader

Lewis Porter (Editor)
This book retrieves long-out-of-print previously unpublished biographical and critical essays, as well as a complete and authoritative collection of Young's interviews and a selection of rare photographs. Together these materials form a record of the life and music of the man Billie Holiday nicknamed "the President." Outstanding in this symposium are contributions by Nat Henthoff, Barry Ulanov, Loren Schoenberg, Whitney Balliett, Bobby Scott, Allan Morrison, Frank Büchmann-Møller and notably Martin Williams

Print Book, English, 1991
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1991