Title: Lester Young Collection 1936-47 Artist: Young, Lester Label: Fabulous Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 824046035822 Genre: Jazz
This is part of a mini-series on our competitively priced budget label Fabulous under the banner of Jazz Legends, presenting some of great and influential names of jazz, with recordings drawn from the classic era of the genre's development between 1920 and 1950. Lester Young was one of the great tenor sax stylists, and had a huge influence on his peers and those who followed, his smooth, elegant, free-flowing phrases giving his music a relaxed and cool flavour. He came to prominence with Count Basie's orchestra
Tracks: 1.1 Shoe Shine Boy 1.2 This Year's Kisses 1.3 Me, Myself and I 1.4 When You're Smiling 1.5 Dickie's Dream 1.6 I Can't Get Started 1.7 I Want a Little Girl 1.8 Taxi War Dance 1.9 Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie 1.10 Lester Leaps in 1.11 Tickle-Toe 1.12 Linger Awhile 1.13 Just You, Just Me 1.14 Sometimes I'm Happy 1.15 After Theatre Jump 1.16 Three Little Words 1.17 Ghost of a Chance 1.18 Indiana 1.19 D.B. Blues 1.20 These Foolish Things 1.21 Jammin with Lester 1.22 Lester's Bebop Boogie 1.23 Just Coolin'