INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Photostory11: Lester Young
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Lester Young was the first jazz musician photographer Herb Snitzer captured with his camera. In fact, the image you see here of Young outside the Five Spot in New York is the first jazz photograph Herb ever took. Writer Nat Hentoff has called this image by Herb "the quintessential Lester Young photograph." This photo and the ones that follow were made in October...