The Bluestone Review Spring 2022

December 21st by Joe Jeremy Lester Young on tenor so mello turns me on like my woman such rich sounds. . . Evidently he drank himself to death one afternoon in a room in Paris. . . Not before he played some elegant saxophone! “It’s Almost Like Being in Love”

currently playing, so lilting makes m want to sing . . . to be as sensitive as he was remarkable What a horn! Tender and gentle after my heart. I cried when I heard how he died. . . He obviously never met the right person the one who would have watched over him tenderly caressed him in the wee hours Would have made all the difference!

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