Icon of 'Cool' - An American historian documents the life of jazz musician Lester Young.(Lester Leaps In)(Book Review)

World and I | September 1, 2002| | Copyright

David Conrads is a writer based in Kansas City, Missouri. 

 
 Book Info:LESTER LEAPS IN 
The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young 
Douglas Henry Daniels 
 Publisher:Boston: Beacon Press, 2002 
524 pp., $30.00

The writer who sets out to produce a good biography of a great musician has set himself a formidable challenge. Regardless of the biographer's breadth of knowledge or the quality of his research and analysis, it is all but impossible, with the meager tools of language, to convey adequately on the printed page a musician's artistry. This is especially true ...

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