Lester Young / by Gelly, Dave

Lester Young / by Porter, Lewis, 1951-

A Lester Young reader /

A discography of Lester Young. by Jepsen, Jørgen Grunnet

You got to be original, man : the music of Lester Young / by Büchmann-Møller, Frank

You just fight for your life : the story of Lester Young / by Büchmann-Møller, Frank

The early swing era, 1930 to 1941 / by Oliphant, Dave

Table of Contents: “…NAME BLACK BANDS: Fletcher Henderson -- Bennie Moten and Count Basie -- Duke Ellington -- Jimmie Lunceford -- NAME WHITE BANDS: Benny Goodman -- Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey -- Artie Shaw -- Glenn Miller -- OTHER BLACK BANDS: Louis Armstrongo -- Luis Russell -- Chick Webb -- Earl "Fatha" Hines -- Cab Calloway -- Andy Kirk -- Lionel Hampton -- Erskine Hawkins -- Boots Douglas -- Oran "Hot Lips" Page -- Benny Carter -- Jay McShann -- OTHER WHITE BANDS: Paul Whiteman -- Casa Loma Orchestra -- Bunny Berigan -- The Bob Crosby Orchestra -- Charlie Barnet -- Gene Krupa -- Harry James -- THE SMALL SWING GROUPS: Coleman Hawkins -- Jack Teagarden -- Billie Holiday -- Lester Young -- Fats Waller -- Milton Brown -- Summa Cum Lade, et al. -- Roy Eldridge and Buster Smith.…”

Icons of Black music / by Greig, Charlotte, 1954-

Table of Contents:

The reluctant art : the growth of jazz. by Green, Benny, 1927-1998

Table of Contents: “…"Why reluctant" -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Benny Goodman -- Lester Young -- Billie Holiday -- Charlie Parker.…”

The reluctant art : five studies in the growth of jazz / by Green, Benny, 1927-1998

Table of Contents: “…Why reluctant -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Benny Goodman -- Lester Young -- Billie Holiday -- Charlie Parker -- Art Tatum.…”

Eight lives in jazz = Combo: U. S. A. / Rudi Blesh. by Blesh, Rudi, 1899-1985

Table of Contents: “…Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Eubie Blake, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden, and Lester Young.…”

Jazz anecdotes : second time around / by Crow, Bill, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Wild scenes -- The word "jazz" -- Beginnings -- Inventions -- Pianos -- Teachers and students -- Stage fright -- Reading music -- Hiring and firing -- Managers, agents, and bosses -- On the road -- Arrangers and arrangements -- Cutting contests -- 52nd Street -- Jazz records -- Jazz on the air -- The well-dressed jazz musician -- Prejudice -- Songs -- Goofs -- Pranks -- The put-on -- Good lines -- Nicknames -- Louis Armstrong -- Bessie Smith -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Thomas "Fats" Walker -- Eddie Condon -- Pee Wee Russell -- Duke Ellington and his orchestra -- Benny Goodman -- Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young -- Art Tatum and his children -- Joe Venuti -- Tommy Dorsey -- Lionel Hampton -- Charlie Parker -- John Birks Gillespie -- Charles Mingus -- Zoot Sims and Al Cohn -- Miles Davis and John Coltrane -- Jokes.…”

American musicians II: seventy-two portraits in jazz / by Balliett, Whitney

Table of Contents: “…-- Big T (Jack Teagarden) -- Three tones (Vic Dickenson) -- Little jazz (Roy Eldridge) -- Big Sid (Sidney Catlett) -- The music is more important (Red Norvo) -- Art Tatum -- Wonder woman (Dorothy Donegan) -- You must start well and you must end well (Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt) -- Demi-centennial (Joe Bushkin) -- Super-drummer (Buddy Rich) -- First and last (Louis Bellson) -- Pres (Lester Young) -- Bird (Charlie Parker) -- Dizzy (Dizzy Gillespie) -- A difficult instrument (Buddy DeFranco) -- Chanting with Buster (Jimmy Rowles) -- Like a family (Modern Jazz Quartet) -- Einfühlung (Ellis Larkins) -- Being a genius (Erroll Garner) -- Bob's your uncle (George Shearing) -- Zoot and Louise (Zoot Sims) -- The key of D is daffodil yellow (Marian McPartland) -- Super chops (Dave McKenna) -- The Westchester kids (Bob Wilber) -- Easier than working (Dick Wellstood) -- Aesthetic vitamins (Ruby Braff) -- A day with the Duke (Duke Ellington) -- Mingus at peace (Charles Mingus)-- A trombone mouth (Jimmy Knepper) -- Joe Wilder -- The answer is yes (Jim Hall) -- An insouciant sound (Paul Desmond) -- Here and abroad (Art Farmer) -- Herr Professor (Walter Norris) -- Poet (Tommy Flanagan) -- A walk to the park (Elvin Jones) -- Bright unison clarinets (Claude Thornhill) -- Ten levels (Lee Konitz) -- A true improviser (Warne Marsh) -- Good, careful melody (Michael Moore) -- A decent life (Gene Bertoncini) -- Ornette (Ornette Coleman) -- Cecil (Cecil Taylor).…”

The Oxford companion to jazz /

Table of Contents: “…Sudhalter -- Pianists of the 1920s and 1930s / Henry Martin -- Coleman Hawkins / Kenny Berger -- Lester Young / Loren Schoenberg --…”

Music: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culutre Volume 12 /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Lucinda Williams -- Bob Wills -- Cassandra Wilson -- WLAC -- Tammy Wynette -- Lester Young.…”

Essential jazz : the first 100 years / by Martin, Henry, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Overview: a decade of swing : Social upheavals in the 1930s -- The big band in the swing era : Instrumentation, technique, and arrangement ; Big-band terms ; The changing role of the rhythm section -- Territory bands : Kansas City ; Mary Lous Williams and the Clouds of Joy -- Count Basie : Jo Jones: modernizing the drums -- Lester Young : Jazz performance terms -- Benny Goodman: king of swing : Race relations in early jazz ; Gene Krupa ; Charlie Christian -- Ellington after the Cotton Club : Building on the band ; Changes for the better ; The 1940s and beyond -- Influential big bands of the swing era -- Swing-era Stylists : Word War II and the "all-girl" bands ; Coleman Hawkins ; Roy Eldridge ; Jack Teagarden ; Earl Hines ; Teddy Wilson ; Benny Carter ; Billie Holiday -- Summary of the features of swing…”