Young, Lester (Saxophone)

Lester Young (Saxophone): 100 Years: Forever Young

2 CD / Storyville Records / 2010-09-14

Tracks: Indiana; A Ghost of a Chance; How High The Moon; D.B. Blues; Lullaby of Birdland/Up and At'em; Too Marvellous For Words; Lullaby of Birdland; Just You, Just Me; It's Only a Papermoon; Speak; I Cover ...
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Liner Note Author: Frank Büchmann Moller.

Recording information: Birdland (05/19/1951-08/15/1956); Café Bohemia (05/19/1951-08/15/1956); Kongresshaus, Zurich (05/19/1951-08/15/1956); ...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone): Standards: Great Songs Great Performances

1 CD / Verve / 2010-07-13

Tracks: Stardust; I Cover the Waterfront - (take); Oh, Lady Be Good!; Love Is Here to Stay; Almost Like Being in Love; Tenderly; Come Rain or Come Shine; They Can't Take That Away from Me
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Verve's Standards: Great Songs/Great Performances contains previously released tracks taken from Lester Young's stint with the label. Aimed at the casual listener, the eight tunes include such classic...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone): Savoy Recordings

CD / Brilliant (Netherlands) / 2009-08-18

Tracks: These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) - (Take 1); Exercise in Swing - (Take 1); Exercise in Swing - (Take 2); Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana); Salute to Fats; Circus in Rhythm; Indiana (Back H...
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Lester Young (Saxophone): Centennial Celebration

1 CD / Original Jazz Classics / 2009-08-04

Tracks: Jumpin' with Symphony Sid; Tea for Two; I Can't Get Started; Pennies from Heaven; I'm Confessin' (That I Love You); Oh Lady, Be Good; Just You, Just Me; Undecided; I Cover the Waterfront; Lester Leap...
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Herb Ellis (guitar); Flip Phillips (tenor saxophone); Earl Swope, Roy Eldridge (trumpet); Hank Jones , Oscar Peterson, Bill Potts (piano); J.C. Heard, Jim Lu...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone)/Teddy Wilson: Pres and Teddy

CD / LHJ / 2008-06-03

Tracks: All of Me; Prisoner of Love; Louise; Love Me or Leave Me; Taking a Chance On Love; Love is Here To Stay; Pres Returns; Thou Swell; September In the Rain; Undercover Girl Blues; Frenesi; Pete's Caf...
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)/Teddy Wilson

2008 reissue of this album, voted one of the 100 best Jazz albums of all time. This reissue contains the complete original 1956 album reuniting...continue...
Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Teddy Wilson (piano); Gene Ramey (bass); Jo Jones (drums).

Recorded in New York, New York on January 13, 1956. Includes original release liner notes b...continue...

Lester Young Quartet: Live At Birdland [Remaster]

5 CD / ESP-Disk / 2007-11-06

Tracks: Oh, Lady Be Good; Foggy Day, A; In a Little Spanish Town; Lester Leaps In; Theme: Lullaby of Birdland; Announcement; Lester Leaps In; Announcement; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Up 'N Adam; In a Little S...
Artists: Lester Young Quartet

Personnel: Lester Young, John Lewis, Gene Ramey, Jo Jones.

Recorded in January, 1951.

Personnel: Don Ferrara, Jesse Jakes (trumpet); Bill Triglia, Horace Silver (piano); Gene Ramey, Fran...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone): Complete 1936-1951 Small Group Sessions V. 3

1 CD / Blue Moon (Import) / 2004-10-12

Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Lester Young (Saxophone): The Complete Savoy Recordings

2 CD / Savoy Jazz (USA) / 2002-06-18

Tracks: These Foolish Things Remind Me of You - (Take 1 master); Exercise in Swing - (take 1); Exercise in Swing - (take 2); Exercise in Swing - (take 3); Exercise in Swing - (take 4); Salute to Fats - (take...
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Earle Warren (vocals, alto saxophone); Jimmy Powell (alto saxophone); Buddy Tate (tenor saxophone);

Rudy Rutherford (baritone saxophone); Billy Butter...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone): Pres in Europe

1 CD / High Note / 2000-03-14

Tracks: Lester Leaps In; These Foolish Things; There Will Never Be Another You; Lester's European Blues; Lullaby of Birdland; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Lester Leaps In
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Lasse Werner, Rene Urtreger (piano); Al King, Pierre Michelot (bass); Lex Humphries, Christian Garros (drums).

Producer: Don Schlitten.

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Lester Young (Saxophone): In Washington, D.C. 1956, Vol. 5

1 CD / Original Jazz Classics / 1998-11-16

Tracks: D.B. Blues; Three Little Words; Pennies from Heaven; When You're Smiling; Oh, Lady Be Good; Up 'N' Adam; Jumpin' with Symphony Sid; Lullaby of Birdland
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Earl Swope (trombone); Bill Potts (piano); Norman Williams (bass); Jim Lucht (drums).

Recorded live at Olivia Davis' Patio Lounge, Washington D.C. in ...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone): In Washington, D.C. 1956, Vol. 4

1 CD / Pablo/OJC / 1998-02-05

Tracks: Talk of the Town; I Cover the Waterfront; Pennies from Heaven; G's If You Please; Almost Like Being in Love; I'm Confessin' (That I Love You); D.B. Blues
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Bill Potts (piano); Norman Williams (bass); Jim Lucht (drums).

Recorded at Olivia Davis' Patio Lounge, Washington D.C. in 1956. Includes original rele...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone)/Oscar Peterson/Oscar Peterson Trio: The President Plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio

1 CD / Verve / 1997-06-24

Tracks: Ad Lib Blues; I Can't Get Started; Just You, Just Me; Almost Like Being in Love; Tea For Two; There Will Never Be Another You; Indiana, (Back Home Again in); On the Sunny Side of the Street; Stardust...
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)/Oscar Peterson/Oscar Peterson Trio

Full title: Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio.

Personnel: Lester Young (vocals, tenor saxophone); Oscar Peterson (piano); Barney Kessel (guitar); Ray Brown (bass); J. C. Heard (drums)....continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone): Lester Young in Washington, D.C., 1956, Vol. 3

1 CD / Pablo/OJC / 1996-10-15

Tracks: Just You, Just Me; Sometimes I'm Happy; (Back Home Again In) Indiana; Up 'N' Adam; There Will Never Be Another You; G's If You Please
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Bill Potts (piano); Norman Williams (bass); Jim Lucht (drums).

Recorded in Washington, D.C. in 1956. Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff.

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Lester Young (Saxophone): Lester Leaps In [Jazz Hour 73571]

1 CD / Jazz Hour / 1996-10-12

Tracks: Shoe Shine Boy; Lady Be Good; Boogie Woogie; I Found a New Baby; Sailboat in the Moonlight, A; When You're Smiling; I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me; Every Tub; Jumpin' at the Woodside; Wa...
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

With his elegant, liquid tenor sax style, Lester Young invented the "cool" years before the term became common coinage, and he has been a huge influence on numerous modern jazz sax players. This gener...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone): Lester Young in Washington, D.C., 1956, Vol. 2

1 CD / Pablo/OJC / 1996-03-14

Tracks: Lester Leaps In; These Foolish Things; I'm Confessin' (That I Love You); Three Little Words; Jumpin' With Symphony Sid; Almost Like Being in Love; Lullaby of Birdland
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

If Lester Young never duplicated his revolutionary artistry of 1936, neither was he a burnt-out case in 1956; far from it. He ended an active

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Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Bill Potts (piano); Norman Williams (bass); Jim Lucht (drums).

Recorded at Olivia Davis' Patio Lounge, Washington, D.C. on December 7, 1956.

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Lester Young (Saxophone): Lester Young Trio

1 CD / Mercury / 1994-04-19

Tracks: Back to the Land; I Cover the Waterfront - (Take One); I Cover the Waterfront - (Take Two); Somebody Loves Me; I've Found a New Baby; Man I Love, The; Peg O' My Heart; I Want to Be Happy; Mean to Me;...
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel includes: Lester Young, Dexter Gordon (tenor saxophone); Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet); Nat "King" Cole (piano); Red Callender, Johnny Miller (bass); Buddy Rich, Clifford "Juicy" Owens (dr...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone): In Washington, D.C., Vol. 1

1 CD / Original Jazz Classics / 1993-04-01

Tracks: Foggy Day, A; When You're Smiling; I Can't Get Started; Fast B Flat Blues; D.B. Blues; Tea for Two; Jeepers Creepers
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Bill Potts (piano); Norman Williams (bass); Jim Lucht (drums).

Recorded at Olivia Davis' Patio Lounge, Washington, D.C. on December 7, 1956. Includes ...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone)/Teddy Wilson: Pres and Teddy

1 CD / Verve / 1991-08-20

Tracks: All of Me; Prisoner of Love; Louise; Love Me or Leave Me; Taking a Chance on Love; Our Love Is Here to Stay; Pres Returns - (bonus track)
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)/Teddy Wilson

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Teddy Wilson (piano); Gene Ramey (bass); Jo Jones (drums).

Recorded in New York, New York on January 13, 1956. Includes original release liner notes b...continue...

Lester Young (Saxophone): The Best of Lester Young [Pablo]

1 CD / Pablo Records / 1991-05-29

Tracks: Foggy Day, A; I Can't Get Started (With You); Lester Leaps In; I'm Confessin' (That I Love You); Almost Like Being in Love; D. B. Blues; These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You); Lullabye of Birdland
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Bill Potts (piano); Norman Williams (bass); Jim Lucht (drums).

Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).

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Lester Young (Saxophone): The Jazz Giants '56

1 CD / Verve / 1990-07-24

Tracks: I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Gigantic Blues; This Year's Kisses; You Can Depend on Me
Artists: Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Roy Eldridge (trumpet); Vic Dickenson (trombone); Teddy Wilson (piano); Freddie Green (guitar); Gene Ramey (bass); Jo Jones (drums).

Recorded at Fine ...continue...