The Lester Young Story - Lester Young

The Lester Young Story

Compilation by Lester Young

Released 15 May 2000

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CD 1: Lester Leaps In
1
Shoe Shine Boy
3:00
2
Oh, Lady Be Good
3:08
3
This Year's Kisses
3:08
4
Easy Living
3:03
5
Me, Myself and I
2:33
6
A Sailboat in the Moonlight
2:50
7
One O'Clock Jump
3:03
8
When You're Smiling
2:50
9
Every Tub
3:21
10
Swinging the Blues
2:44
11
Doggin' Arround
3:03
12
Jumpin' at the Woodside
3:09
13
I Can't Get Started
2:48
14
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
2:59
15
Countless Blues
3:01
16
I Want a Little Girl
2:53
17
Shorty George
2:49
18
Pannassie Stomp
2:49
19
You Can Depend on Me
3:13
20
Cherokee, Parts 1 & 2
6:13
21
Jive at Five
2:52
22
Taxi War Dance
2:52
23
Pound Cake
2:43
24
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
2:28
CD 2: Afternoon of a Basie-Ite
1
Dickie's Dream
3:09
2
Lester Leaps In
3:16
3
Tickle Toe
2:41
4
Ad-Lib Blues
3:22
5
I Never Knew
3:02
6
Lester's Dream
3:19
7
Broadway
2:58
8
Tickle Toe
5:33
9
Taxi War Dance
5:27
10
Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can't Bomb Me)
3:20
11
Beautiful Eyes
3:02
12
Things About Coming My Way
3:00
13
Just Jivin' Around
2:54
14
All of Me
3:00
15
I Can't Get Started
4:52
16
Tea for Two
4:46
17
Body and Soul
5:08
18
Hello Babe
3:12
19
Just You, Just Me
3:06
20
Afternoon of a Basie-Ite
3:05
CD 3: Lester Leaps Again
1
Sometimes I'm Happy
3:08
2
After Theatre Jump
4:50
3
Six Cats and a Prince
5:23
4
Lester Leaps Again
4:26
5
Destination K.C.
4:51
6
I Got Rhythm
3:19
7
Poor Little Plaything
2:56
8
Exercise in Swing
3:01
9
Salute to Fats
3:20
10
Blue Lester
3:26
11
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
3:23
12
Jump, Lester, Jump
3:21
13
Midnight Symphony
3:01
14
D.B. Blues
3:02
15
Lester Blows Again
2:33
16
These Foolish Things
3:13
17
Jumpin' at Mesner's
2:46
18
Back to the Land
3:54
19
I Cover the Waterfront
3:55
20
I've Found a New Baby
4:06
21
I Want to Be Happy
3:58
CD 4: Ding Dong
1
It's Only a Paper Moon
3:08
2
Lover, Come Back to Me
2:39
3
You're Driving Me Crazy
3:07
4
Lester's Be-Bop Boogie
3:15
5
She's Funny That Way
3:21
6
Sunday
2:25
7
S.M. Blues
3:05
8
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
3:14
9
On the Sunny Side of the Street
3:01
10
Sax-O-Be-Bop
3:01
11
Just Cooling
3:01
12
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
2:32
13
East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)
3:11
14
The Sheik of Araby
2:32
15
Something to Remember You By
2:46
16
Ding Dong
2:29
17
Blues 'n' Bells
2:27
18
Lester Leaps In
12:15
19
Embraceable You
10:35

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Release credits

Buck Clayton
trumpet [2.1, 1.14]
Clyde Hart
piano [10-11]
Count Basie
piano [1]
Dicky Wells
trombone [1]
Eddie Durham
electric guitar [14], trombone [14]
Freddie Green
guitar [1.14, 2.1]
Jo Jones
drums (drum set) [2.1, 1.14]
John Collins
guitar [10-11]
Johnny Guarnieri
piano [1]
Lester Young
clarinet [1.14, 2.1], tenor saxophone [1.14, 3.1, 2.1, 2.10-11]
Milt Gabler
producer [14]
Nick Fenton
double bass [10-11]
Shad Collins
trumpet [10-11]
Sid Catlett
drums (drum set) [1]
Slam Stewart
double bass [1]
The Count Basie Orchestra
performing orchestra [1]
Una Mae Carlisle
vocal [10-11]
Walter Page
double bass [1.14, 2.1]
‘Doc’ West
drums (drum set) [10-11]

Issues

T
The Lester Young Story
4x CD
15 May 2000
A
Afternoon of a Basie-ite
CD
2000