February 8, 2008
Partying and Praying
Two biographies explore the jazz legacies of sax players Lester Young and John Coltrane
Notorious for its sexual and alcoholic associations, the jazz saxophone has always occupied a hot spot in popular culture. It is next to impossible to discuss the musical achievement of the great sax players without dealing with their mythologies. For Lester Young, better known as "Prez," it is the myth of "cool," a word he himself popularized: the laconic hipster, boozy and smoky, detached and
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