Lester Young - Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Lester Young
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Artist: Lester YoungEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Oh, Lady Be Good - Lester Young, Gershwin, George
- Every Tub (with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
- Honeysuckle Rose (with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
- Pagin' The Devil (with the Kansas City Six)
- A Sailboat In The Moonlight (with Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra)
- He's Funny That Way (with Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra)
- Getting Some Fun Out Of Life (with Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra)
- If Dreams Come True (with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra)
- Taxi War Dance (with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
- Twelfth Street Rag (with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
- Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
- Lester Leaps In (with Count Basie's Kansas City Seven)
- Tickle Toe (with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- I've Found A New Baby
- D.B. Blues
- Jumpin' With Smyphony Sid
- This Year's Kisses
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams (with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
Free Music Notes for Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Lester Young
Free Music Review: A tough one to review
Hit: 3 Stars
Everyone seems to be all over the poor sound quality on some of the cuts on this disc. I can't disagree, because I have 10 others of this series and they all sound much better than this one. I also have some of the rarest stuff (like all 4 Jones-Smith tracks) on an early 70s Hammond produced 2 LP Columbia Basie comp "Super Chief" (if you like Basie and have a turntable, BUY THAT - YOU NEED IT!) I am having mixed feelings about the track selection myself. All the music is wonderful, but over half of this disc is Basie material! I also understand that a complete overview of Young is impossible without some Billie Holiday, but there are 4 Holiday numbers. Once you account for that there's not much room for *Lester Young* material. He recorded prolifically for Alladin and Lamp among others in the 40s but that stuff is barely represented. The beauty of many of these Ken Burns comps is that they usually dig up a handful of "off the beaten path" recordings, but that's not the case here. Most of it is pretty easily available. They also usually sound really good, too, despite the age of the master recordings. If this were the first Ken Burns Jazz comp I bought I would (wrongly) assume that the rest of them are this poorly conceived. Luckily I know better.
Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Lester Young Poster
First coming to prominence with Count Basie's band in 1936, Lester Young defined a new way to play tenor saxophone, with a soft, airy sound and an understated beat. In the process, he was also creating a new way to play jazz, with a flowing, melodic inventiveness and a detachment that would influence the bop and cool schools to come. Young did much of his best work as a sideman in the first few years of his public career, and the first 13 tracks of this collection focus on his work up to 1940. Basie's hard-swinging big band was a terrific foil for Young's own novel blend of rhythmic invention and an almost languid sound, heard here on tunes like "Taxi War Dance" and the uptempo "Twelfth Street Rag." With Basie's smaller Kansas City Seven, Young created masterpieces like his signature "Lester Leaps In." Young and his friend Billie Holiday shared an uncanny musical empathy, represented by four tracks here. There's also a sampling of Young's later recordings, including his trio version of "I've Found a New Baby," with Nat Cole on piano and Buddy Rich on drums, and "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" from a 1957 reunion with Basie at the Newport Jazz Festival. --Stuart BroomerBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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