Lester Young‘s birthday today, born August 27, 1909.
Here on The Allen Ginsberg Project (and likewise annually on New York’s redoubtable WKCR) 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