Lester Young Jazz Musician (27-Aug-1909 15-Mar-1959) SUBJECT OF BOOKS
Frank Buchmann-Moller. You Just Fight for Your Life: The Story of Lester Young. Praeger. 1990. 298pp. Douglas Henry Daniels. Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young. Beacon Press. 2002. 524pp. Luc Delannoy. Translated by Elena B. Odio. Pres: The Story of Lester Young. University of Arkansas Press. 1993. 252pp. Dave Gelly. Lester Young. Hippocrene Books. 1984. 94pp. Dave Gelly. Being Prez: The Life and Music of Lester Young. Oxford University Press. 2007. 171pp. Jørgen Grunnet Jepsen. A Discography of Lester Young. Karl Emil Knudsen. 1968. 90pp. Lewis Porter. Lester Young. University of Michigan Press. 2005. 136pp.
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- 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.841)
- International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.773)
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1595)
- Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.820)
- Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.527)
- The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.349)
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