"...a play about power, leadership, and the rough-and tumble process of social change. In its multifaceted search for the meaning behind the headline-grabbing events in Memphis, and in its depiction
The Resurrection of Lady Lester is, in part, a retelling of the life of Lester Young, the great jazz saxophonist of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Early in his career Young left the Count Basie band