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The Complete Savoy Recordings
By Lester Young
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Disk One
With Johnny Guarnieri
Lester Young: The Complete Savoy Recordings
by Jim Santella
Savoy’s complete compilation travels through two and a half hours of Lester Young’s studio sessions and rehearsal time. There are several takes for many of the numbers, and the listener has the opportunity to weigh which takes really matter. They all sound great. Some amount to false starts, and others appear to have minor balance differences. ...
Lester Young: The Complete Savoy Recordings
by Charlie B. Dahan
Savoy Jazz continues to celebrate it’s revival by releasing a complete anthology of Lester ‘Prez” Young’s recordings for Savoy. This collection is divided into two separate and distinct periods in Young’s life. The first to be explored is the recordings he did in a two-week period in 1944 as both a sideman and ...
Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey
by C. Andrew Hovan
While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...
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 ...
