You Just Fight for Your Life

The Story of Lester Young

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Frank Buchmann-Moller

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Buchmann-Moller's biography of Young offers a reconstruction of Young's life and career. Drawing on newspaper accounts, oral history tapes and the author's interviews with musicians who played with Young, Buchmann-Moller is able to supply information concerning Young's life. He begins with an account of Young's family background and his early musical career with his father's band, in which he played from the time he was ten years old. A chronological history of Young's tours and engagements with various jazz groups over a nine-year period before he joined the Count Basie band in 1936 is also included. The author's descriptions of Young's time with Count Basie and of his years as a bandleader and featured soloist aim to shed light on the musician's character and personal philosophy as well as his music. Reviews of Young's concerts in both the United States and Europe are quoted and discussed. The author describes Young's difficulties during his military service in World War II, when he was involved in a military trial. In one appendix, the author lists Young's jobs from 1919 to his death in 1959, as a sideman, leader and soloist. A second appendix covers Young's own bands and their personnel.

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FRANK BUCHMANN-MOLLER is a Danish Jazz Musician who appears regularly with his own quartet as well as other groups. A Librarian at Odense University, he has received research grants from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities, the Danish Music Council, and the Funan Association of Jazz Musicians.

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January 22nd, 1990

Author

Frank Buchmann-Moller

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General (US: Trade)

Pages

298

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780275932657

Product ID

7016392

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