You Just Fight for Your Life
Subtitle: The Story of Lester Young
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: January 22, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780275932657
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Blues; Jazz; 20th century; Black Musicians And Their Music; Music; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; Genres & Styles - Jazz; Music / Jazz; 1909-1959; Biography; Jazz musicians; United States; Young, Lester; Young, Lester,
First sentence: To many people interested in jazz, the name New Orleans sounds romantic, immediately conjuring up nostalgic associations with the birth of jazz, but New Orleans at the turn of the century was a town of stark contrasts.