Home » Search Center » Results: The Complete Savoy Recordings

Results for "The Complete Savoy Recordings"

Advanced search options

Album

The Complete Savoy Recordings

By Lester Young

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Disk One With Johnny Guarnieri

279

Article: Album Review

Lester Young: The Complete Savoy Recordings

Read "The Complete Savoy Recordings" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
October 1, 2002

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. ...

553

Article: Album Review

Lester Young: The Complete Savoy Recordings

Read "The Complete Savoy Recordings" reviewed by Charlie B. Dahan

by Charlie B. Dahan
September 13, 2002

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 ...