Lester Young‘s birthday today, born August 27, 1909.
Here on The Allen Ginsberg Project (and likewise annually on New York’s redoubtable WKCR – see this year’s programming) we like to celebrate “Bird and Prez”
Allen, (famously, to an interviewer): “Lester Young was what I was thinking about…”Howl” is all “Lester Leaps In””
See our previous Lester Young postings – here, here, and here
still waiting on what promises to be quite a film – Henry Ferrini‘s President of Beauty – soon soon