JAZZ...Lester Young, born this day 1909.

We can never give him enough
credit for what he did for the
saxophone. No one was ever 
more "modern." 

You can spend years studying his
solos and never get to the bottom
of them.

Young spent his formative years 
in New Orleans/Algiers, a fact
rarely commented on or appreciated.

Wearing his trademark pork-pie
hat, his solo in this All-Star jam
starts at 44 seconds. 

Video:

http://www.jazzonthetube.com/page/11944.html