Technique pure and simple, rendition, is not of major importance, but it is interesting that Parker, following Lester Young, was one of the leaders of the so-called saxophone revolution.

The main line of development today goes back to Lester Young and by-passes them.

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

* 1909 – Lester Young, American saxophonist ( d. 1959 )

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

* March 15 – Lester Young, American jazz saxophonist ( b. 1909 )

Beiderbecke also has been credited for his influence, directly, on Bing Crosby and, indirectly, via saxophonist Frank Trumbauer, on Lester Young.

He favors jazz ( especially bebop ), blues, classic rhythm-and-blues, classical, and country-and-western music ; his favorite musicians include saxophonists Charlie Parker and Lester Young, pianists Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, and Fats Waller, and Delta bluesman Robert Johnson.

Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry " Sweets " Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams.

Basie formed a new band that year, which included many Moten alumni, with the important addition of tenor player Lester Young.

His personnel around 1937 included: Lester Young and Herschel Evans ( tenor sax ), Freddie Green ( guitar ), Jo Jones ( drums ), Walter Page ( bass ), Earle Warren ( alto sax ), Buck Clayton and Harry Edison ( trumpet ), Benny Morton and Dickie Wells ( trombone ).

Lester Young, known as " Prez " by the band, came up with nicknames for all the other band members.

They also toured with the " Birdland Stars of 1955 ", whose lineup included Sarah Vaughan, Erroll Garner, Lester Young, George Shearing, and Stan Getz.

* c. 1937: Joe Keyes, Buck Clayton, Carl Smith, George Hunt, Dan Minor, Caughey Roberts, Herschel Evans, Lester Young, Jack Washington, Claude Williams, Walter Page, Jo Jones.

It featured Lester Young, Red Callender, Harry Edison, Marlowe Morris, Sid Catlett, Barney Kessel, Jo Jones, John Simmons, Illinois Jacquet, Marie Bryant, Archie Savage and Garland Finney.

In Russell's band he met the trumpeter Fats Navarro, who influenced him to play in the style of the tenor saxophonist Lester Young.

* Lester Willis Young, American jazz musician

After the break-up of the band, Jackson took a break and recorded an album of old-style swing and blues tunes, Jumpin ' Jive, featuring songs of Cab Calloway, Lester Young, Glenn Miller, and most prominently, Louis Jordan.

The book was the basis for Round Midnight, a film inspired by the lives of Powell and Lester Young, in which Dexter Gordon played the lead role of an expatriate jazzman in Paris.

On another occasion, he explained: " the line length ... you'll notice that they're all built on bop — you might think of them as a bop refrain — chorus after chorus after chorus — the ideal being, say, Lester Young in Kansas City in 1938, blowing 72 choruses of ' The Man I Love ' until everyone in the hall was out of his head ..."

* Count Basie begins recording with his own band, which includes Lester Young.

" At Apollo he recorded with saxophone legends King Curtis and Lester Young behind him.

* Saxophone: Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Herschel Evans, Lester Young, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Sam Butera, Charlie Barnet, Jimmy Dorsey, Glen Gray, Willie Smith, Otto Hardwick, Earle Warren, Vido Musso, Georgie Auld, Bud Freeman, Eddie Miller, Ernie Caceres, Tex Beneke, Al Klink, Tony Pastor

In the fall of 1954, she performed at Carnegie Hall with the Count Basie Orchestra on a bill that also included Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Lester Young and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Two early conflict theorists were the Polish-Austrian sociologist and political theorist Ludwig Gumplowicz ( 1838 – 1909 ) and the American sociologist and paleontologist Lester F. Ward ( 1841 – 1913 ).

He was the second president of American Sociological Association serving from 1908 to 1909. and succeeding his long time ideological opponent Lester F. Ward.

Arthur Lester Benton ( October 16, 1909 – December 27, 2006 ) was a neuropsychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Psychology at the University of Iowa.

* Lester Young ( 1909 – 1959 ), saxophonist

Doniger was born in New York City to immigrant non-observant Jewish parents, and raised in Great Neck NY, where her father, Lester L Doniger ( 1909 – 1971 ), ran a publishing business.

In the 1909 – 10 NHA season, the Creamery Kings received the nickname " Millionaires " as O ' Brien signed up several stars of the time to extravagant contracts, including Fred Taylor, Frank and Lester Patrick and acquired Newsy Lalonde in an attempt to win the Stanley Cup for Renfrew.

During the term of the progressive President Theodore Roosevelt ( 1901 – 1909 ), and influenced by the ideas of ' philosopher-scientists ' such as George Perkins Marsh, John Wesley Powell, Lester Frank Ward and W J McGee, the largest government-funded conservation-related projects in U. S. history were undertaken:

Lester Willis Young ( August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959 ), nicknamed " Pres " or " Prez ", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.

* 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer ( d. 1969 )

* 1968 – Adrian Lester, English actor, director, and writer

* 1934 – Ketty Lester, American singer and actress

* 1949 – Gene Simmons, Israeli-American singer-songwriter, bass player, producer, and actor, ( Kiss and Wicked Lester )

* 1911 – Lester Rodney, American journalist ( d. 2009 )

* 1954 – Lester Square, Canadian musician ( The Monochrome Set and Adam and the Ants )

* 1977 Best Country Instrumental Performance – Chester and Lester

* 1883 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach ( d. 1960 )

More than half of the footage filmed for Superman II by the originally credited director ( Richard Lester ) has been removed from the film and replaced with Donner footage shot during the original principal photography from 1977 – 1978.

* 1948 – Lester Bangs, Rock critic ( d. 1982 )

* 1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player ( b. 1883 )

* 1984 – Jon Lester, American baseball player

* 1932 – Richard Lester, British director

* 1956 – Alex Lester, English broadcaster

Writers such as Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, in The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World ( 2000 ), Fredrick Turner in A Culture of Hope and Lester Brown in Plan B, have articulated a critique of the basic idea of modernism itself – that individual creative expression should conform to the realities of technology.

* 1959 – Lester Holt, American television journalist

* 1953 – Paul Martin Lester, American educator, author, and photographer

* 1999 – Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player ( b. 1941 )

* 1941 – Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter ( d. 1999 )

Latham remarks that this analysis by Harlan Ellison " obscures Ellison's own prominent role – and that of other professional authors and editors such as Judith Merril, Michael Moorcock, Lester Del Rey, Frederik Pohl, and Donald A. Wollheim – in fomenting the conflict, …"

* 1964 – Lester Quitzau, Canadian guitarist

* 1938 – Tom Lester, American actor

* 1915 – Lester Maddox, American politician, 75th Governor of Georgia ( d. 2003 )