The studio suggested several alternatives, including Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner or John Travolta to play Lester, and Helen Hunt or Holly Hunter to play Carolyn.

* Lester Willis Young, American jazz musician

His musical family included his father Willis Young and his older brother, saxophonist Lester Young.

Radio technology has a surprisingly long history in Kingston, dating back to the early radio experimentations of Queen's first Professor of General Engineering, James Lester Willis Gill.

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.

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.

Image of Hurricane Lester ( 1992 ) | Hurricane Lester from late August 1992.

* August 1 – John Lester, American cricketer ( d. 1969 )

In August 1873, he appointed Lester L. Bond as Acting Mayor for the remaining 3½ months of his term, and went to Europe on a convalescent tour.

Construction started on August 13, 1963, when Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson pulled a lever that signalled a front-end loader to dump the first batch of fill to enlarge Île Sainte-Hélène.

at: 06 / 26 / 1996 text :" August 2, 1996, Lt. Gen. Lester G. Lyles USAF confirmed as director of BMDO.

Lester William Polsfuss ( June 9, 1915 – August 13, 2009 )— known as Les Paul — was an American jazz, country and blues guitarist, songwriter and inventor.

Maddox closed the Pickrick on August 13, and reopened the business on September 26 as the Lester Maddox Cafeteria, where he pledged to serve only " acceptable " Georgians.

Bennett Lester Carter ( August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003 ) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

Lester was indicted for the three murders in August 2011.

Maryon and Lester Pearson married on August 22, 1925.

John Lester " Johnny " Nash, Jr. ( born August 19, 1940 ) is an American pop singer-songwriter, best known in the US for his 1972 comeback hit, " I Can See Clearly Now ".

Clarence Lester " Les " Hogan ( February 8, 1920 – August 12, 2008 ) was an American physicist and a pioneer in microwave and semiconductor technology.

Two days later, on August 19, Johnson appointed him to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth which had been vacated by Lester Lefevre Cecil.

In August 1968 Robert S. McNamara, then President of the World Bank, formed the commission, asking former Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester Bowles Pearson to head the commission.

Seán Lester ( 28 September 1888, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland – 13 June 1959, Galway, Ireland ) was an Irish diplomat and the last Secretary General of the League of Nations, from 31 August 1940 to 18 April 1946.

William Lester Nelson ( August 4, 1875 – December 31, 1946 ) was an American farmer and politician from Columbia, Missouri.

The Reverend Robert Lester Mondale ( May 28, 1904 – August 19, 2003 ) was an American Unitarian minister and Humanist.

On August 14, Lester struck out ten batters for the sixth time in the 2009 season, the most times ever by a Red Sox lefty.

On August 27, 2006, Lester was scratched from his scheduled start against the Oakland Athletics due to a sore back.

On August 31 it was reported that Lester had been diagnosed with enlarged lymph nodes and was being tested for a variety of ailments, including forms of cancer.