{"product_id":"lester-young-jazz-poster-live-in-washington-dc-1956","title":"Lester Young jazz poster - Live in Washington, DC - 1956","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecondTakeJazzArt presents...\u003cbr\u003ea high-quality \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eunframed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e poster featuring original artwork commemorating some fan-favorite live performances from jazz history:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLester Young Quartet\u003cbr\u003e\"Live in Washington, D.C., 1956\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe December 3–8, 1956 gig at Olivia Davis's Patio Lounge in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efeaturing Lester Young  — aka \"Pres\" or \"Prez\" — (tenor sax) with Bill Potts (piano), Norman Williams (bass), and Jim Lucht (drums) — with additional sets by Tommy Chase (piano)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince his earliest work in the 1930s with Count Basie and Billie Holiday, Lester Young has been indisputably one of the most influential jazz musicians ever, and he remains a potent source of inspiration for most players to this day!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis trademark tenor saxophone approach stood apart from the more established \"big-toned\" sound of Coleman Hawkins, Herschel Evans, Chu Berry, and others. Lester preferred a lighter, thinner sound with less vibrato and an improvisational concept that married long, flowing melodic lines with novel note choices that implied extended harmonies. Since the Swing Era, countless trailblazers have cited Lester Young as one of their primary influences (pioneers like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Gil Evans, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, and others), and they have routinely credited Lester's innovations as fundamental to the emergence of bebop, cool jazz, modal jazz, bossa nova, third stream, and other jazz movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd Lester's December 1956 engagement in Washington, D.C. — forming a quartet with the house trio at Olivia Davis's Patio Lounge — would prove a late-career triumph. The off-the-cuff recordings pianist Bill Potts made of the gig are a revelation, capturing numerous albums' worth of masterful performances by 47-year-old Lester, with tasty accompaniment by Potts and his trio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps inspired by his success at the Patio Lounge, Lester continued to experience something of a comeback over the next two years. In 1957, he famously appeared on television as part of \"The Sound of Jazz\" revue program (playing what many consider a masterpiece solo, a single brilliant chorus of the blues on Billie Holiday's \"Fine and Mellow\"), and he triumphantly reunited with Count Basie and his orchestra at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 (featured gloriously of \"Lester Leaps In\" and \"Polkadots and Moonbeams\"). And in 1958, he recorded some sweet albums with trumpeters Harry \"Sweets\" Edison and Roy Eldridge. And then, in March 1959, Lester's ailing health caught up with him, and he passed away at the age of just 49. The jazz world mourned the loss of yet another one of its giants, and the long, relaxed tracks captured that week in '56 at the Patio Lounge now stand out as some of Lester Young's very best live recordings and offer an enduring testament to his talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA quick bit of trivia: after roughly a two-year run as a top D.C. jazz spot — featuring star power from the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Erroll Garner, Art Tatum, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and others — the short-lived Patio Lounge shuttered promptly after Lester's engagement! 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