musical excerpts, fyi. randye
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:06:53 -0400
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Subject: 0827 - Today in Black History - August 27
1909 - Lester Young is born into a musical family in Woodville,
Mississippi. Young was taught several instruments by his
father. As a child he played drums in the family's band, but
around 1928 he quit the group and switched to tenor saxophone.
His first engagements on this instrument were with Art Bronson,
in Phoenix, Arizona. He stayed with Bronson until 1930, with a
brief side trip to play again with the family, then worked in
and around Minneapolis, Minnesota, with various bands. In the
spring of 1932 he joined the Original Blue Devils, under the
leadership of Walter Page, and was one of several members of
the band who joined Bennie Moten in Kansas City towards the end
of 1933. During the next few years Young played in the bands of
Moten, George E. Lee, King Oliver, Count Basie, Fletcher
Henderson, Andy Kirk and others.
1989 - 'Johnny B Goode' is performed by Chuck Berry for NASA engineers
and scientists in celebration of Voyager II's encounter with
the planet Neptune.
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