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The Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940
By Lester Young
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Shoe Shine Boy (A); Evenin' (A); Boogie Woogie (A); Oh, Lady Be Good (A); I Ain't Got Nobody (B); Goin' To Chicago (B); Live and Love Tonight (B);
Love Me Or Leave Me (B); What Goes Up Must Come Down (C); Taxi War Dance (C); Don't Worry 'Bout Me (D); And The Angels Sing (E); If I Didn't Care (E);
Twelfth Street Rag (E); Miss Thing (Pt.1) (E); Miss Thing (Pt.2) (E); Shoe Shine Boy (A); What Goes Up Must Come Down (C); Taxi War Dance (C) (alt tk);
Don't Worry 'Bout Me (D). CD2: 1. Lonesome Miss Pretty (F); Bolero At The Savoy (F); Pound Cake (F); You Can Count On Me (G); Song Of The Islands (I);
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (I); Dickie's Dream (J); Lester Leaps In (J); The Apple Jump (K); I Left My Baby (K); Riff Interlude (K); You Can Count On Me (G);
Dickie's Dream (J); Dickie's Dream (J); Lester Leaps In (J); I Left My Baby (K); Riff Interlude (K); Riff Interlude (K); Riff Interlude (K); Riff Interlude (K).
CD3: Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (L); Ham 'N' Eggs (L); Hollywood Jump (L); I Never Knew (M); Tickle-Toe (M); Let's Make Hay While The Moon Shines (M);
Louisiana (M); Easy Does It (N); Let Me See (N); Blow Top (O); Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (L); Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (L);
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (L); Ham 'N' Eggs (L); Ham 'N' Eggs (L); Hollywood Jump (L); Let's Make Hay While The Moon Shines (M); Louisiana (M);
Let Me See (N); Blow Top (O). CD4: Evenin'; The World Is Mad (Pt.1); The World Is Mad (Pt.2) (P); Ad Lib Blues (Q); Wholly Cats (Q); Charlie's Dream (Q);
I Never Knew (Q); Lester's Dream (Q); What's Your Number? (R); Five O'Clock Whistle; Broadway (S); China Boy (H); Exactly Like You (H); On The Sunny Side Of The Street (H);
Upright Organ Blues (H); Who ? (H); Jazz Me Blues (H); Exactly Like You (H); What's Your Number? (R); What's Your Number? (R); Five O'Clock Whistle (S);
Five O'Clock Whistle (S); Broadway (S).
Live at Birdland
By Lester Young
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Oh, Lady Be Good; A Foggy Day; In a Little Spanish Town; Lester Leaps In; Theme: Lullaby of Birdland; Announcement; Lester Leaps In; Announcement; Polkadots and Moonbeams; Up
Claude Pauly: Mind Meets Matter
by Ian Patterson
Legions of saxophonists were mesmerized by the sound of Lester Young and Charlie Parker and to this day, John Coltrane; for trumpeters, Miles Davis continues to ensnare many, and for fusion guitarists John McLaughlin and Allan Holdsworth continue to fascinate. As a bright light does moths, they are sucked in, and if not careful, their own ...
Curtis Fuller: Motor City Messenger
by Russ Musto
The most recorded jazz trombonist of his lifetime, Curtis Fuller's illustrious career spans six decades and includes tenures with many of the greatest names in this music. Born Dec. 15th, 1934 in Detroit, Fuller was orphaned at an early age, but found family in the close-knit jazz community of the musically fertile Motor City. He first ...
Lester Young: The Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940
by AAJ Staff
By Duck Baker No doubt most of the people buying this box know that the music it contains is necessary to any serious jazz collection (if not to life itself). But to spell it out for any who haven't got the word yet, Count Basie's pre-war band epitomized that core quality in jazz called ...
Lester Young: Compatible Quotes and a Movie
Rifftides postings have been seldom lately because I'm working on a magazine piece about the resuscitation of Lester Young's tenor saxophone and the consequent revival of a band devoted to his music. More about that later. In the meantime, here's a set of thoughts from and about Prez. Well, the way I play, I try ...
Enter the Mosaic Records "Lester Young/Count Basie" Giveaway
All About Jazz readers are invited to join the Mosaic Records Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940 4-CD set giveaway starting today. We'll select one lucky winner at the conclusion of the contest on September 25th. Click here to enter the contest All contestants will join the Lester Young @ AAJ fan network and the winner will ...
The Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940 4CD Set on Mosaic Records
"Irrespective of tempo, his melodic invention was always strange and haunting. On a jump number, he would impose a weird mood; a ballad was transformed into a nostalgic song, searching and mysterious." --Stanley Dance Together “Pres" & Basie Began To Completely Reinvent Jazz Available at last: the most important collection imaginable from the legendary pairing of ...
