Portrait - Lester Young

Portrait

Compilation by Lester Young

Released 2001

Tracklist

CD 1: Countless Blues
1
Shoe Shine Boy
2:59
2
Evenin
2:56
3
Boogie Woogie
3:15
4
Lady Be Good
3:08
5
This Years Kisses
3:07
6
I Must Have That Man
2:56
7
I'll Get By
3:09
8
Mean to Me
3:07
9
I'll Never Be the Same
3:03
4.0 ★
10
Easy Living
3:04
11
Foolin' Myself
3:00
12
Without Your Love
2:52
13
Me, Myself and I
2:37
14
A Sailboat in the Moonlight
2:53
15
Trav'lin' All Alone
2:15
16
She's Funny That Way
2:39
17
Getting Some Fun Out of Life
3:03
18
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
2:57
19
Countless Blues
2:58
CD 2: Lester Leaps In
1
Them There Eyes
2:58
2
I Want a Little Girl
2:53
3
Pagin' the Devil
2:55
4
I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
2:45
5
Back in Your Own Backyard
2:40
6
You Can't Be Mine (And Somebody Elses Too)
2:21
7
Say It With a Kiss
2:34
8
I Ain't Got Nobody
2:56
9
Goin' to Chicago
3:07
10
(Let Me) Live and Love Tonight
3:00
11
Love Me or Leave Me
2:32
12
China Boy
2:50
13
Exactly Like You
2:41
14
On the Sunny Side of the Street
2:55
15
Upright Organ Blues
2:58
16
Who
2:35
17
Jazz Me Blues
2:45
18
Dickies Dream
3:07
19
Lester Leaps In
3:11
CD 3: I Never Knew
1
The Man I Love
3:05
2
Laughing at Life
2:53
3
Time on My Hands
3:05
4
All of Me
3:02
5
Let's Do It
2:56
6
Indiana
4:48
7
I Can't Get Started
4:50
8
Tea for Two
4:40
9
Body and Soul
5:03
10
I Got Rhythm
4:09
11
I'm for It Too
4:08
12
Hello Babe
3:07
13
Linger Awhile
3:04
14
Just You Just Me
3:10
15
I Never Knew
3:08
16
Afternoon of a Basie-Ite
3:08
17
Sometimes I'm Happy
3:03
CD 4: Lester Leaps Again
1
After Theatre Jump
4:43
2
Six Cats and a Prince
4:08
3
Lester Leaps Again
4:25
4
Destination K.C.
3:51
5
Three Little Words
2:53
6
Jo-Jo
3:19
7
I Got Rhythm
3:16
8
Four O'Clock Drag
2:50
9
These Foolish Things
2:56
10
Exercise in Swing
3:00
11
Salute to Fats
2:59
12
Basie English
3:00
13
Blue Lester
3:23
14
Ghost of a Chance
3:18
15
Indiana
2:55
16
Jump Lester Jump
3:16
17
D.B. Blues
2:58
18
Lester Blows Again
2:30
19
These Foolish Things
3:06
CD 5: Jammin' With Lester
1
Jumpin' at Mesners
2:43
2
It's Only a Papermoon
3:05
3
After You've Gone
2:41
4
Lover Come Back to Me
2:36
5
Jammin' With Lester
3:01
6
Back to the Land
3:50
7
I Cover the Waterfront
4:01
8
Somebody Loves Me
3:51
9
I've Found a New Baby
4:02
10
The Man I Love
4:46
11
Peg o My Heart
4:01
12
I Want to Be Happy
3:56
13
Youre Driving Me Crazy
3:04
14
New Lester Leaps In
2:55
15
Lesters Be Bop Boogie
3:13
16
She's Funny That Way
3:18
17
Sunday
2:22
18
S.M. Blues
3:00
CD 6: Movin' With Lester
1
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
3:10
2
No Eyes Blues
2:58
3
Sax-O-Be-Bop
2:52
4
On the Sunny Side of the Street
2:59
5
Easy Does It
2:31
6
Movin' With Lester
3:09
7
One O'Clock Jump
2:37
8
Jumpin' at the Woodside
2:58
9
Confessin'
2:30
10
Lester Smoothes It Out
2:53
11
Just Coolin'
2:57
12
Tea for Two
3:07
13
East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
3:08
14
The Sheik of Araby
2:30
15
Something to Remember You By
2:44
16
Crazy Over J.Z.
2:42
17
Ding Dong
2:25
18
Blues 'n' Bells
2:20
CD 7: Little Pee's Blues
1
June Bug
2:36
2
Too Marvelous for Words
2:58
3
'Deed I Do
3:12
4
Encore
3:05
5
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
3:36
6
Up and at 'em
3:45
7
Three Little Words
3:14
8
Count Every Star
2:40
9
It All Depends on You
3:14
10
Neenah
3:25
11
Jeepers Creepers
3:03
12
Thou Swell
2:54
13
September in the Rain
3:04
14
Undercover (Girl) Blues
2:41
15
Frenesi
2:57
16
Pete's Cafe
3:32
17
Little Pee's Blues
2:38
18
A Foggy Day
2:47
CD 8: Lester Swings
1
In a Little Spanish Town
3:10
2
Let's Fall in Love
2:52
3
Down 'n' At 'em
2:52
4
Lester Swings
2:30
5
Slow Motion Blues
2:54
6
Ad Lib Blues
5:51
7
I Can't Get Started
3:39
8
Just You, Just Me
7:38
9
Almost Like Being in Love
3:32
10
Tea for Two
7:43
11
There Will Never Be Another You
3:26
12
Indiana
7:02
13
On the Sunny Side of the Street
3:25
14
Star Dust
3:33
15
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
3:41
16
I Can't Give You Anything but Love
3:21
17
(It Takes) Two to Tango
3:24
CD 9: The Basie Years
1
One O'Clock Jump
2:58
2
Swingin' the Blues
2:44
3
Every Tub
3:16
4
Jumpin' at the Woodside
3:03
5
Texas Shuffle
3:02
6
Jive at Five
2:39
7
Oh! Lady Be Good
3:10
8
Twelfth Street Rag
3:04
9
Miss Thing Part I + Ii
5:29
10
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
2:28
11
Dickie's Dream
3:08
12
Lester Leaps In
3:11
13
Ham 'n' Eggs
2:33
14
Hollywood Jump
2:35
15
I Never Knew
2:40
16
Tickle-Toe
2:39
17
Easy Does It
3:27
18
Five O'Clock Whistle
3:01
19
Love Jumped Out
3:11
20
Broadway
2:55
CD 10: Live at the Birdland
1
Neenah
3:40
2
These Foolish Things
3:21
3
Up 'n' At 'em
3:39
4
Lester Leaps In
4:21
5
A Ghost of a Chance
3:52
6
Neenah
4:26
7
Up 'n' At 'em
3:58
8
Too Marvellous for Words
4:51
9
Lester Leaps In
5:00
10
D.B. Blues
3:10
11
Indiana
7:21
12
A Ghost of a Chance
3:53
13
How High the Moon
6:24

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Release credits

Barney Kessel
guitar [15]
Billie Holiday
vocal [9]
Buck Clayton
trumpet [9, 18]
Buster Bailey
clarinet [9]
Dodo Marmarosa
piano [19]
Eddie Durham
electric guitar [18], trombone [18]
Freddie Green
guitar [9, 18]
Gene Ramey
double bass [18]
Henry Tucker Green
drums (drum set) [19]
J.C. Heard
drums (drum set) [15]
Jo Jones
drums (drum set) [7.18, 1.9, 1.18]
John Lewis
piano [18]
Johnny Guarnieri
piano [14, 17]
Lester Young
clarinet [18], tenor saxophone [4.19, 3.14, 3.17, 1.9, 1.18, 8.15, 7.18]
Milt Gabler
producer [18]
Oscar Peterson
piano [15]
Ray Brown
double bass [15]
Red Callender
double bass [19]
Sid Catlett
drums (drum set) [14, 17]
Slam Stewart
double bass [14, 17]
Teddy Wilson
piano [9]
Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [9]
Vic Dickenson
trombone [19]
Walter Page
double bass [9, 18]

Issues

P
Portrait
10x CD
2001