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Lester Bangs: Say It Like You Mean it

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2008-03-03 23:00:38 by J.P. Gelinas in Rock & Roll is a State of Mind
...Lester Bangs anyhow?" Ah, to those of you who have not gone swimming in the madcap waters of his prose, Bangs was a rock & roll journalist who shuffled off his mortal coil in 1982. He has since gone on to become an icon but beyond all that ballyhoo Lester Bangs remains a damn good writer whose work underscored the most important lesson of all...
 
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Lou Reed says 'Lester Bangs - who?'

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2008-05-07 00:00:00 by mofgimmers in Electric Roulette
...Lester Bangs work for Creem and the like, you'll know that there were some legendary bouts between the writer and Lou Reed. Reed, moody old queen delivering snide put-downs and Bangs, a fanboy who wouldn't let on... the tussles were epic. Well, Jim DeRogatis, Bangs biographer, has kicked up a stink about Lou Reed after he said "who was Lester...
 
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Lester Young: Compatible Quotes And A Movie

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2008-09-08 08:05:00 by Rifftides in Rifftides
 
...Lester Young's tenor saxophone and the consequent revival of a band devoted to his music. More about that later. In the meantime, here's a set of thoughts from and about Prez Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without...
 
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Taylor Ho Bynum on Lester Bowie

2008-01-13 12:45:46 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...Lester was probably the first avant trumpet player I started listening to, and honestly, I cant remember how, when and where I first heard him. But I do remember the feeling. Growing up in Boston and getting into jazz in the late eighties and early nineties, the dominant trumpet aesthetic amongst music students was Berklee-ite, post-Wynton...
 
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Weekend Extra: Lester Young

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2008-12-28 07:04:21 by Rifftides in Rifftides
 
...Lester Young, every foot of him performing on film is precious. Loren Schoenberg calls attention to a performance by Young that showed up recently on You Tube . Whoever submitted the clip from a kinescope of Art Ford's Jazz Party television program provided no information beyond Young's name. Ray Bryant is the pianist. The bassist is Vinnie...
 
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Mosaic Count Basie and Lester Young, a Charlie Haden Interview, and More

2008-03-17 03:28:47 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
 
...Lester Young and Count Basie set . I was told last week that the Benny Goodman Columbia box is on track for an early-summer release Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus has posted his recent interview with bassist Charlie Haden , which originally appeared in this past Januarys Downbeat The widely-syndicated, Siskel-and-Ebert-style radio jazz program...
 
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The All-Purpose Lester Bangs Forum

2008-09-15 01:19:52 by A.C. Rhodes in rockcritics.com
 
Don't hate me because I'm gone You love him, you hate his misinterpreters, you love to hate his detractors heres the all-purpose Lester Bangs forum for questions, answers and discussion
 
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Lester

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2008-11-23 15:33:58 by dave in The Greenleaf Music Blog
 
Bowie, that is. He did so many things so well. He's sorely missed on the scene, as he epitomized the possibilities in bringing together all sorts of music and influences. He's clearly referencing Miles here, but there's so, so much else We Bop: Lester Bowie, with the Art Ensemble of Chicago in 1981
 
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Milton Delugg Conquers the Martians

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2008-01-06 01:51:52 by Listener Kliph Nesteroff in WFMU's Beware of the Blog
...Lester on alternate nights and then solely by Lester for the rest of its run. Musical director Delugg wrote the show's theme with writing partner Willie Stein. It was titled The Beanbag Song - a reference to Lester's inexplicable nickname. It consisted mostly of comedy sketches and solo singers, although occasionally a stand-up comedian...
 
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Sour CREEM

2008-01-18 13:33:57 by admin in blog.mp3adrenalin.com
 
...Lester Bangs and, by association, CREEM Magazine as legendary without fear of being ridiculed Jim DeRogatis whose 2000 Let It Blurt biography of the, um, legendary rock critic got the ball rolling when it was published to much fanfare several months before the film debuted moderated a panel about CREEM at the 2001 South by Southwest music...
 
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