Saxophonist Lester “Pres” Young was born on this day in 1909. Here he is in a famous video performance of “Blues for Greasy” in 1950. That’s Ella Fitzgerald coming in with the scat vocal.
Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York.
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