Here in the U.S. today, the country is celebrating President's Day, a national holiday set up in the 1880s to cover both George Washington's (22nd) and Abraham Lincoln's (12th) February birthdays. At JazzWax, we celebrate Lester Young today, whom Billie Holiday nicknamed the President or Prez of the tenor saxophone. Whether or not you're familiar with P…
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