Worn by many a jazz
great.
H ere is sax player Lester young in a pork pie hat. Lester Young,
the Prez (nickname given him by Billie Holiday) not only had the most
exquisite tone to ever come out of a saxophone, but an unusual way of
holding the horn. He was a secretive and ironic character, tender and
frustrated. His last days of music were spent in Paris.
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