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Lost Lester Young Jam Session Turns Up

NPR
Published April 15, 2006 at 8:00 AM EDT
Lester Young playing at a charity concert in August 1953. He died in 1959.
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Lester Young playing at a charity concert in August 1953. He died in 1959.

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