Being Prez - The Life and Music of Lester Young - Dave Gelly
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Being Prez - The Life and Music of Lester Young - Dave Gelly
Dave Gelly [+]
Writer and Journalist
Dave Gelly writes about jazz in The Observer and other newspapers and journals. He has written and presented many features for BBC radio and hosted a weekly Radio Two show. He was a leading writer on the Sony Award-winning ten-part BBC radio series Sinatra: Voice of the Century and is the author of several books, including Masters of the Jazz Saxophone (Miller Freeman, 2000) and Stan Getz: Nobody Else but Me (Backbeat 2002). He was named Jazz Writer of the Year in the 1999 British Jazz Awards. Dave Gelly was appointed MBE in the 2005 New Years Honours.
Description
Back in 1934, when Lester had been under pressure in the Fletcher Henderson band, with Mrs Henderson breathing down his neck in her efforts to turn him into an imitation Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday had tried to cheer him up by assuring him that, one day, people would be copying him. Her prediction had now come true.