

Lester Can't Get Started
This handwritten manuscript is my transcription of Lester Young playing on 'I Can't Get Started', (Duke Vernon/Ira Gershwin) in 1942. In this recording session Prez was accompanied by the Nat King Cole trio. The relaxed feel and sensitive accompaniment of the group allows Lester to really show his rhythmic and melodic invention, as well as his rich vibrato sub-tone sound throughout the saxophone range. His high F# sounds like his bottom D! One aspect of this solo that I reall