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| 1. | All of Me
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| 2. | Prisoner of Love
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| 3. | Louise
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| 4. | Love Me or Leave Me
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| 5. | Taking a Chance On Love
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| 6. | Love is Here To Stay
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| 7. | Pres Returns
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| 8. | Thou Swell [*]
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| 9. | September In the Rain [*]
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| 10. | Undercover Girl Blues [*]
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| 11. | Frenesi [*]
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| 12. | Pete's Café [*]
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| 13. | Little Pee Blues [*]
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| 14. | A Foggy Day [*]
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| 15. | In a Little Spanish Town [*]
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| 16. | Let's Fall In Love [*]
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| 17. | Down 'N' Adam [*]
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| 18. | Lester Swings [*]
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| 19. | Slow Motion Blues [*]
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Jazz / Cool, Swing, Jazz Blues, Mainstream Jazz, Standards, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Tracks #1-7:
Recorded in New York City, on January 13, 1956
Lester Young (ts), Teddy Wilson (p), Gene Ramey (b) and Jo Jones (d)
Tracks #8-13:
Recorded in New York City, on January 16, 1951
Lester Young (ts), John Lewis (p), Gene Ramey (b) and Jo Jones (d)
Tracks #14-19:
Recorded on March 8, 1951
Same as [8-13]
This edition presents the complete original 1956 Verve album reuniting Lester Young with his old musical companions Teddy Wilson, Gene Ramey and Jo Jones. This was one of the last really swinging sets by Lester, who would die in 1958.
As a bonus, two more quartet sessions fronted by the tenor saxist, which also feature Ramey and Jones, but John Lewis replacing Wilson on piano. Recorded in 1951, the bonus tracks were originally issued as part of three different Norgran albums: "Pres", "The President" and "Lester's Here" (1956).
Tracks #1-7 from the original 12" LP "Pres & Teddy" (Verve MG V-8205).
The bonus tracks are taken from:
Tracks #9, 12 & 18-19 from the original 10" LP "The President" (Norgran MGN 1005). Reissued in 1956 as "Lester Swings Again" (Verve MG V-8181).
Tracks #14-17 from the original 10" LP "Lester's Here" (Norgran MGN 1071).
Tracks #8, 10-11 & 13 from the original 10" LP "Pres" (Norgran MGN 1072).
"Although it has been written much too often that Lester Young declined rapidly from the mid-'40s on, the truth is that when he was healthy, Young played at his very best during the '50s, adding an emotional intensity to his sound that had not been present during the more carefree days of the '30s. This classic session, a reunion with pianist Teddy Wilson and drummer Jo Jones (bassist Gene Ramey completes the quartet), finds the great tenor in particularly expressive form. His rendition of "Prisoner of Love" is quite haunting, the version of "All of Me" is also memorable, and all of the swing standards (which are joined by his original "Pres Returns") are well worth hearing. This date was recorded the day after Young's other classic from his late period, Jazz Giants '56."
---Scott Yanow -All Music Guide
Lester Young
Active Decades: '30s, '40s and '50s
Born: Aug 27, 1909 in Woodville, MS
Died: Mar 15, 1959 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Cool, Mainstream Jazz, Swing
Lester Young was one of the true jazz giants, a tenor saxophonist who came up with a completely different conception in which to play his horn, floating over bar lines with a light tone rather than adopting Coleman Hawkins' then-dominant forceful approach. A non-conformist, Young (nicknamed "Pres" by Billie Holiday) had the ironic experience in the 1950s of hearing many young tenors try to sound exactly like him.
Although he spent his earliest days near New Orleans, Lester Young lived in Minneapolis by 1920, playing in a legendary family band. He studied violin, trumpet, and drums, starting on alto at age 13. Because he refused to tour in the South, Young left home in 1927 and instead toured with Art Bronson's Bostonians, switching to tenor. He was back with the family band in 1929 and then freelanced for a few years, playing with Walter Page's Blue Devils (1930), Eddie Barefield in 1931, back with the Blue Devils during 1932-1933, and Bennie Moten and King Oliver (both 1933). He was with Count Basie for the first time in 1934 but left to replace Coleman Hawkins with Fletcher Henderson. Unfortunately, it was expected that Young would try to emulate Hawk, and his laid-back sound angered Henderson's sidemen, resulting in Pres not lasting long. After a tour with Andy Kirk and a few brief jobs, Lester Young was back with Basie in 1936, just in time to star with the band as they headed East. Young made history during his years with Basie, not only participating on Count's record dates but starring with Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson on a series of classic small-group sessions. In addition, on his rare recordings on clarinet with Basie and the Kansas City Six, Young displayed a very original cool sound that almost sounded like altoist Paul Desmond in the 1950s. After leaving Count in 1940, Young's career became a bit aimless, not capitalizing on his fame in the jazz world. He co-led a low-profile band with his brother, drummer Lee Young, in Los Angeles until re-joining Basie in December 1943. Young had a happy nine months back with the band, recorded a memorable quartet session with bassist Slam Stewart, and starred in the short film Jammin' the Blues before he was drafted. His experiences dealing with racism in the military were horrifying, affecting his mental state of mind for the remainder of his life.
Although many critics have written that Lester Young never sounded as good after getting out of the military, despite erratic health he actually was at his prime in the mid- to late-'40s. He toured (and was well paid by Norman Granz) with Jazz at the Philharmonic on and off through the '40s and '50s, made a wonderful series of recordings for Aladdin, and worked steadily as a single. Young also adopted his style well to bebop (which he had helped pave the way for in the 1930s). But mentally he was suffering, building a wall between himself and the outside world, and inventing his own colorful vocabulary. Although many of his recordings in the 1950s were excellent (showing a greater emotional depth than in his earlier days), Young was bothered by the fact that some of his white imitators were making much more money than he was. He drank huge amounts of liquor and nearly stopped eating, with predictable results. 1956's Jazz Giants album found him in peak form as did a well documented engagement in Washington, D.C., with a quartet and a last reunion with Count Basie at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. But, for the 1957 telecast The Sound of Jazz, Young mostly played sitting down (although he stole the show with an emotional one-chorus blues solo played to Billie Holiday). After becoming ill in Paris in early 1959, Lester Young came home and essentially drank himself to death. Many decades after his death, Pres is still considered (along with Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane) one of the three most important tenor saxophonists of all time.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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