. . . a tall, intense young musician who arrived in Oklahoma City sometime in 1929 and who, . . ."

" . . . a tall, intense young musician who arrived in Oklahoma City sometime in 1929 and who, with his heavy white sweater, blue stocking cap and up-and-outthrust silver saxophone, left absolutely no reed player and few young players of any instrument unstirred by the wild, excitingly original flights of his imagination. Who else but Lester Young, who with his battered horn upset the entire Negro section of the town."

. . . Ralph Ellison . . . "The Charlie Christian Story" . . . Shadow and Act . . . 236 . . .