YOUNG, LESTER (PREZ
). Jazz saxophonist ( in Woodville, Mississippi; in New York, New York). He came from a family of professional musicians. His father was a bandleader, his mother played piano, and his brother Leonidas (Lee
) became a professional jazz musician. His family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, when he was an infant. The children studied instruments with their father and played in the Young family band, which toured on the vaudeville circuit and with carnivals...