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Lester Young/Roy Eldridge/Harry Edison: Laughin' to Keep from Cryin'
by David Adler
This 1958 all-star date documents Pres on his last legs, about a year away from death. His tone is faltering and his energy level is low — especially on the clarinet, which he plays on “Salute to Benny" and “They Can’t Take That Away From Me." But still, on “Gypsy In My Soul" and “Please Don’t ...
Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio
By Lester Young
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1998
Track listing: 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; (Back Home Again in) Indiana; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Star Dust; I?m Confessin';; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; These Foolish Things; (It Takes) Two to Tango; I Can't Get Started (False Start).
Lester Young: In Washington, DC 1956, Vol. 4
by AAJ Staff
Some jazz critics contend that Lester “The Prez" Young went downhill after World War II, but don't believe it for a minute. The seminal tenorist (who died in 1958) continued to excel during the last years of his life, and one of the great things about his 1950s output is the fact that LPs gave him ...
Lester Young, Oscar Peterson: Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio
by C. Michael Bailey
I have liked the Lester Young small group recordings that I have heard. My introduction came with the four-LP Pablo series, Lester Young in Washington DC, 1956. These recordings were made toward the end of Young's life and contain some of his most ethereal playing. I suppose I am also a child of the 1970s and ...
Jazz At The Philarmonic-Frankfurt 1952
By Lester Young
Label: Pablo Records
Released: 1997
Track listing: Introduction By Norman Granz; How High The Moon; Undecided; Ballad Medley; Dre's Blues;
