{"id":1599,"date":"2025-01-31T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saxlessons.nz\/site\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2025-01-31T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:23:00","slug":"lester-young-blue-lester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saxlessons.nz\/site\/lester-young-blue-lester\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester Young: Blue Lester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would like for you to listen to the album &#8216;Blue Lester&#8217; by the fantastic jazz great Lester Young (&#8216;The Pres&#8217;, a nickname given to him by his dear friend Billie Holiday because she considered him to be as important as a president).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This wonderful album includes some jazz standards. 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