Portrait

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]
• Carl Smith
  trumpet [4]
• Count Basie
  piano [4]
• Dodo Marmarosa
  piano [19]
• Eddie Durham
  electric guitar [18], trombone [18]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [9, 18]
• Gene Ramey
  double bass [7.13, 7.18, 8.5]
• Henry Tucker Green
  drums (drum set) [19]
• J.C. Heard
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Jo Jones
  drums (drum set) [7.13, 7.18, 1.4, 1.9, 1.18, 8.5]
• John Hammond
  producer [4]
• John Lewis
  piano [8.5, 7.13, 7.18]
• Johnny Guarnieri
  piano [14, 17]
• Lester Young
  clarinet [18], tenor saxophone [8.5, 8.15, 3.14, 3.17, 1.4, 1.9, 1.18, 4.19, 7.13, 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 [4, 9, 18]
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Issues

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  Portrait

  10x CD
  2001