Lester Young: Fabulous Saxophone Genius

Needed inspiration today. Needed mainstream JAZZ. I got it! Yeah...today I listened to the flaming hot tenor sax of the powerhouse Lester Young. The man along with the Kansas City Seven was doing the super jazz standard, 'Lester Leaps In.' This sound with its omnipresent totality of jazz classicism (a la, the fabulous keyboard comping of Mr. Count Basie) packs a brashness and a burnished gold quality that really charms the listeners. Enjoying the big tenor sounds of Lester Young...Well, that's heavenly fun...Indeed!

Lester Young, Lauren, Jacobs: So 'Exciting'

Thought a lot today about the exciting arena that is art. Obviously, after many years a person realizes even meeting souls and talking, well even that sort of thing can be an awake mechanism. Art can develop for a human in so many ways. It's time we took art out of the locked in stuff of McCarthy's "Groves of Academe" syndrome. Today I enjoyed the amazing strong jazz playing of the magnificent and so highly influential, Lester Young. This giant of the tenor saxophone is an inspiration. His searing, highly articulate linear lines can totally overwhelm listeners. This man, Lester Young, what a superb solo innovator he is. When one really gets the brain into "diggin'" Lester Young, you can tell why so many greats like John Coltrane and others were so influenced by this guy. The sense of playing the exactly right notes in Young's style is much akin to the delightful artistic and grandly super work of superlatives galore people like the style artistry profound Ralph Lauren and Marc Jacobs. The works of Ralph Lauren and Marc Jacobs can inspire us all with their interesting aura of vivid creative flair. Ralph Lauren and Marc Jacobs are top-notch. It is a marvelous autumn afternoon here in the passionate country we call North Georgia and it is so good art is speaking so poignantly to all of us 21st Century souls.