And you have to stop and ask yourself, вЂWell, is it all an illusion?вЂ™. Nothing would give you the impression that this place had ever been anything other than what it is right now. ItвЂ™s very emotional to see something that played such a large part in your life, and now thereвЂ™s nothing left there. вЂњMy final thoughts are kind of sad, because when you go there now, I feel like IвЂ™m stepping into a graveyard. Farmer was one of the musicians whose recollections are featured, including these thoughts on the legacy of Central Avenue: A single CD compilation of 13 selections from the collection (without liner notes), titled вЂњLester Swings,вЂќ already has been released.ДЇarmerвЂ™s Recollections: When flugelhorn player Art Farmer died this week in New York at 71 (his obituary appeared in ThursdayвЂ™s Times), it was cause to revisit вЂњCentral Avenue Sounds,вЂќ the invaluable oral history of jazz in Los Angeles published in 1998 and recently issued in paperback. вЂњThe Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on VerveвЂќ will be released Oct.

As a roommate, he was the best-never loud. вЂњHe said my sound was so sweet it could rot a babyвЂ™s teeth. Young gave him the вЂњSweetsвЂќ moniker, Edison recalls, when they were roommates traveling with Basie circa 1938. the first to want to shoot craps on the bandstand the first to crap out.вЂќ Young, writes Edison in the tribute titled вЂњI Remember Prez,вЂќ will not only вЂњbe remembered as a legend in this art formвЂќ but also as вЂњa bad dice shooter.

The notes give a unique personal view of the wispy-toned, deceptively relaxed tenor player who influenced saxophonists from Charlie Parker to Stan Getz. EdisonвЂ™s essay is included in the liner notes to вЂњThe Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve,вЂќ an upcoming eight-CD set that includes dates produced by Jazz at the Philharmonic impresario Norman Granz between 1946 and YoungвЂ™s death in 1959. In April of this year, three months before he died at the age of 83, trumpeter Harry Edison wrote a tribute to his great friend, Basie cohort and the man who gave him the name вЂњSweets,вЂќ saxophonist Lester Young.

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