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- Early Years in New Orleans and The Family Band
- Classic Early Recordings with Count Basie and Joe Jones
- Lester Young & Billie Holiday
- Count Basie & His Orchestra
- Stint in The Army
- Jazz at The Philharmonic
- Trio with Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich
- Prez Meets The Oscar Peterson Trio
- Reunion with Teddy Wilson
- Final Years
Lester Willis Young was born in Woodville, Mississippi in 1909. His family moved to Algiers, New Orleans while he was still a baby, and the vibrant port, renowned as America’s most musical city at the time, would leave a big impression upon the young Lester. His father led a touring band, in which Lester first played the drums. After becoming fed u...
Settling in Kansas City, Lester now joined up with Count Basie, a fellow Blue Devils alumnus. The pianist and bandleader is best known for his powerful, gloriously swinging big band albumsfrom the 1950s and beyond. But in the mid-1930s Basie made some of the most important small-group recordings in jazz history. In 1936 a band including Young, Basi...
The friendship between Billie Holiday and Lester Young is surely one of the great love stories in jazz. Although their relationship was purely platonic, the pair shared a deep personal and musical affinity, and made some of the most touching recordings of all time. Young liked to frequent late night jam sessions and it was at one of these, during a...
In addition to the classic small group sessions that gave us “Lady Be Good” and “Shoe Shine Boy”, Lester made some of his best-loved early recordings with Basie’s full big band. Previously he had left the Basie band to take up what was, at the time, a more prestigious position with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra in New York, replacing Coleman Hawki...
In 1940 Lester Young, along with the drummer Jo Jones, was drafted into the U.S. army at the age of 35, despite suffering from alcoholism and various other medical problems. While many white musicians who were drafted were put into military bands, Young was placed in the regular army, where he was not allowed to play his saxophone. Very much a free...
After his release from military prison Prez began to find more commercial and financial success. He was invited to tour as a star soloist with Jazz at the Philharmonic, a series of package concerts and tours arranged by promoter and impresario Norman Granz. One of JATP’s most iconic moments came at a concert in Hollywood in 1946, the year after You...
It might surprise you to learn that Nat King Coleand Buddy Rich played as sidemen in a trio format with Lester Young. But, prior to becoming one of American’s most beloved crooners, Cole was one of the finest swing-to-bop pianists around. And before Buddy Rich became a high-powered big band leader he played on small group jazz sessions with the lik...
There is a commonly-stated narrative that says that Lester’s recordings from the 1950s onwards are less valuable than his earlier work. Certainly, as he suffered from alcoholism and poor health, his recordings could be hit-and-miss and he was not as spritely on the tenor as on those classic solos from the late ‘30s and early ‘40s. But he was certai...
Lester Young was hospitalised in 1955 following a nervous breakdown, but after some treatment he found himself on relatively good form the following year. For Norman Granz’s Verve label he cut Pres and Teddywith Teddy Wilson, the pianist and bandleader from most of the classic tracks that Lester had made with Billie Holiday, almost two decades earl...
Lester Young was unable to recover from his alcoholism and his health steadily declined. He died following his return from a tour in Paris in 1959, aged just 49. One of the most notable musical moments from around this period came in 1957, when he recorded a CBS television special with Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster an...
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Added as a bonus is the complete LP "Vamp Till Ready", by a Jo Jones sextet that included such stars as Harry “Sweets” Edison and Tommy Flanagan. PERSONNEL: JO JONES, drums BENNIE GREEN, trombone EMMETT BERRY, trumpet LUCKY THOMPSON, tenor sax FREDDIE GREEN, guitar NAT PIERCE, piano WALTER PAGE, bass Count Basie (piano, replaces Pierce on 1 ...
In Roseland Shuffle (1937), Jones joins Basie on piano and Lester Young on tenor sax, transforming their historical dialogue into a three parties affair. On Honeysuckle Rose (also from 1937), Jones’ presence is similarly essential to the development of a climactic effect.
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