🎷✨ Hey SOTW world! This week the my free transcription is LESTER YOUNG - ALL OF ME, from the famous recording with Billie Holiday As always it's available for free download and also comes with a guide on how to practise the transcription.🎷✨ Here's a link to the transcription and guide. This...

🎷✨ Hey folks! Second in my weekly transcription series, this time it's Lester on Way Down Yonder in New Orleans. As always it's available for free download and also comes with a guide on how to practise the transcription. I think I'll be doing a few Lester Young solos in the coming weeks🎷✨...

Can anyone help identify the photographer, date and location of this photo of Miles Davis and Lester Young? It is believed to be somewhere in Europe in the '50s. Any help appreciated.

I am trying to figure out who is soloing at what time during the 1946 Jazz at The Philharmonic concerts - specifically the brass players. I can distinguish between Parker and Hawkins, but throw Lester Young in there and it gets difficult for a jazz newbie like me. I also don't know who solos on...

Ethan Iverson (pianist with The Bad Plus, Billy Hart quartet, etc...) has transcribed a fantastic never-before-publicly-available 1938 two-chorus Lester Young solo on Tea for Two, from the Savory Collection of recordings at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, in concert key, available here...

Hey Everybody, Here's another Lester Young solo - Ad Lib Blues. It's from the "Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio" album. Check it out at www.richpagesax.blogspot.com Cheers! R

Hello Everybody! I hope that everyone has had a great holiday season. I just posted a transcription of Lester Young's solo on "There Will Never Be Another You" from the album, Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio. You can check it out at http://www.richpagesax.blogspot.com The tempo...

Haven't seen this before, and it's glorious:

Houston Person is coming to Buffalo at the end of October, and I've been asked to have a pre-concert "conversation" (the gig's at an art gallery, so they do this sort of thing) about where HP fits into the "Boss Tenor" tradition. Which has gotten me thinking about The Jazz Tenor in general --...