The Lester Young Story

Artist: Lester Young
Label: Proper UK Boxed Sets
Category: Music

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Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4

UPC: 604988990829
EAN: 0604988990829
ASIN: B00004S2AW

Release Date: 2001-05-24

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The almost complete Tenor Sax Collection
mixed swing classics

Tracks:

Shoe Shine Boy
Oh Lady Be Good
This Year's Kisses
Easy Living
Me Myself And I
A Sailboat In The Moon Light
One O'Clock Jump
When You're Smiling
Every Tub
Swinging The Blues
Doggin' Around
Jumpin' At The Woodside
I Can't Get Started
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
Countless Blues
I Want A Little Girl
Shorty George
Pannassie Stomp
You Can Depend On Me
Cherokee Part 1 & 2
Jive At Five
Taxi War Dance
Pound Cake
Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie
Dickie's Dream
Lester Leaps In
Tickle Toe
Ad'Lib Blues
I Never Knew
Lester's Dream
Broadway
Tickle Toe
Taxi War Dance
Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can't Bomb Me)
Beautiful Eyes
Things About Coming My Way
Just Jivin' Around
Al Of Me
I Can't Get Started
Tea For Two
Body And Soul
Hello Babe
Just You Just Me
Afternoon Of A Basie-Ite
Sometimes I'm Happy
After Theatre Jump
Six Cats And A Prince
Lester Leaps Again
Destination KC
I Got Rhythm
Poor Little Plaything
Exercise In Swing
Salute To Fats
Blue Lester (Lester's Blues)
Ghost Of A Chance
Jump Lester Jump
Midnight Symphony
DB Blues
Lester Blows Again
These Foolish Things
Jumpin' At Mesner's
Back To The Land
I Cover The Waterfront
I've Found A New Baby
I Want To Be Happy
It's Only A Paper Moon
Lover Come Back To Me
You're Driving Me Crazy
Lester's Be-Bop Boogie
She's Funny That Way
Sunday
SM Blues
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Sax-O-Be-Bop
Just Cooling
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
East Of Sun
The Sheik Of Araby
Something To Remember You By
Ding Dong
Blues'N'Bells
Lester Leaps In
Embraceable You

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Customer Reviews:

Jazz gold age.......2007-01-22

A quite complete collection from which you can have a glimpse of the golden years of jazz and listen to the most representative works from a sax master

Grab it!!!.......2006-07-09

This is an excellent collection, impossible not to like if this genre of jazz is what you are into. Lester Young is a very good sax player, he ranks right up there with the all-time greats. Enjoy!!!

Can't go past this one.......2006-01-20

If you are making your first purchase of a Lester Young CD you really can't go past this one, especially if you want an overview of his playing in his prime years. This probably has his best recordings from the beginning in '36 to '49 with maybe a few ommissions here and there, but I'd be surprised if there is a better 'Prez' compilation out there for the first time listener. Good value for money too with 4 CD's.

Stellar. BUY IT NOW!!.......2005-12-30

This four CD set is a comprehensive survey of Lester Young's career. The collection addresses the major phases of the tenor saxophonist's professional life and includes key performances. The first CD, "Lester Leaps In" (1936-1939) showcases Young in classic performances featuring vocalist Billie Holiday and pianists Teddy Wilson and Count Basie withWalter Page on bass, Freddie Green on guitar, and Jo Jones on drums. "Afternoon of a Basie-ite," (1939-1944) the second CD in the set, presents Young in Basie's Kansas City Seven as well as in Dickie Wells' band and as part of Billie Holiday's orchestra. Again, the performances are jazz classics. And they offer not only the Lester Young performances along with classic recordings of the Count Basie orchestra in its prime and Billie Holiday in hers. Disc 3, "Lester Leaps Again" (1943-1946) records Young with the Basie orchestra (again with the core rhythm section of Greene, Page, and Jones) as well as with his own group. It includes recordings with pianists Johnny Guarnieri and Nat Cole and drummers Sidney Catlett and Buddy Rich. The Young-Cole-Rich trio recordings are worth the price of the set. Disc 4, "Ding Dong" (1946-1949) doesn't reach the end of Young's career, but it does include performances that demonstrate that despite some reports he never lost the power and lyricism of the early years. The Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) recording (1949) with Roy Eldridge, Charlie Parker, and Flip Phillips show that even in his supposed decline he was always a force to be reckoned with. (His contemporaries said that despite his seeming lightness if he were given enough choruses Young would bury any competition.) This CD set is a tremendous bargain, particularly because it encapsulates so much great jazz. In this set Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson and Count Basie and other greats of the swing era are available in cleanly remastered recordings of classic performance. The accompanying booklet contains carefully prepared discography and commentary.

Forever Young.......2005-12-30

Fantastic value, could serve as the backbone of a fledgling jazz collection. Proper produces excellent anthologies, at amazing prices. The sound quality, tune selection, packaging, and booklet combine to make this an exceptional buy.

The whole idea of purchasing a box set is getting the chance to immerse yourself in an artist's music. To be disappointed that all tracks are not of equal caliber - or equally to your taste - is to completely miss the point, what you have is the full context. (Disc 1 alone is worth the price of the set.) That Young played with so many other greats of his day adds enormously to the fun, and the insight.

For tone, phrasing, lyricism, and sheer polish it is impossible to top Young. Roaming around in this sprawling 4-CD retrospective will help you appreciate that what we think of as jazz today would be impossible without his contribution. All the great players that followed owe him at least some of their lunch money. After that realization has occurred, you'll keep returning to this collection simply because his playing is absolutely exquisite. Young, even at his worst, is still better than just about anyone else.

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