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Lester Young

Lester Young is associated with: Improvisation

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Movies Starring Lester Young (4)

Improvisation (2004)

Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977, Joe Pass 1979, Ella Fitzgerald 1979, and Oscar Peterson at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977. ...

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Improvisation (1950)

An improvised jazz session with some of the greats from the 1950s era including Ella Fitzgerald. ...

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Jammin' the Blues (1944)

In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor sax legend Lester Young. ...

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Movies Made By Lester Young (1)

'Round Midnight (1986)

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks ...

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