Word: lester
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...keyboard and gave jazz new contours. Billie Holiday, the beautiful desolation angel, the most ravishing and ravaged of jazz singers, whose rendition of Autumn in New York Burns allows to play out here as a threnody for jazz's last great era. Bird passes, and Billie passes, and Lester Young, and Louis, and Duke, and all of a sudden it seems there are no more giants, and there is only the hard number: jazz, which was responsible for something like 70% of record-company revenue during the swing era of the '30s, accounts for more like 3% today...
...national reputation as one of the foremost advocates for amateur athletics. In 1956, he was part of the silver medal-winning U.S. Olympic hockey team. He won a gold medal four years later. He was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1989, and he received the Lester Patrick Award in 1997 for contributions to hockey...
...Shenson, Lester and Owen decided on a comedic day-in-the-life film and spent a few days on the road with the Beatles as they prepared for their upcoming American debut. Within a week of that momentous "Ed Sullivan" debut, British TV was showing a slapdash documentary of the Beatles on that landmark February 1964 visit. The instant documentary was shot by Albert and David Maysles (later to find fame with their Rolling Stones/Altamont documentary "Gimme Shelter." Lester saw it and instantly grasped its significance. If he could capture that crackling energy in a fictionalized form the film would...
...Early on the film signals that nothing is real. The Beatles appear running alongside the train they're actually riding to mock the stuffy businessman in their compartment. But Lester slips it in as a casual piece of business. The audience is now prepared for anything...
...film broke down barriers in the '60s. Hardened film critics went in expecting pop schlock of the beach-movie variety and came out exuding raves for both the film and the Beatles. Thirty years later the cinematic grammar invented by Lester is still a staple of pop videos. MTV once sent Lester a citation proclaiming him the "father of music video." The waspish Lester thanked them - and requested a blood test...