Lester Young
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He is remembered as one of the finest, most influential players on his instrument, playing with a cool tone and sophisticated harmonies and not the robust honking sound of which the instrument is also capable. He also became a jazz legend, inventing or establishing much of the hipster ethos which came to be associated with the music.
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