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Track Listing
1. Love Me or Leave Me
2. Sometimes I'm Happy
3. I've Found a New Baby
4. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
5. On the Sunny Side of the Street
6. Indiana, (Back Home Again in)
7. Prisoner of Love
8. In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This)
9. Just You, Just Me
10. Peg O' My Heart
11. Too Marvelous For Words
12. All of Me
13. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
14. Mean to Me
15. I Never Knew
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Nat "King" Cole, Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson, Hank Jones (piano); Barney Kessel (guitar); Gene Ramey (bass); Jo Jones, Buddy Rich (drums).
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
With Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane, Lester Young makes up what could be called the Holy Trinity of jazz tenor saxophonists. On this Verve compilation, we get a wonderful overview of Young's post- Count Basie Orchestra output. Selections featured here range from dates recorded in 1943 up through 1956, three years before the musician's death.
Young's cool-toned, behind-the-beat phrasing is in evidence on all 15 tracks, from the Latin inflected "In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This)," through the relaxed swing of "Peg O' My Heart," to the uptempo bounce of "All of Me." This CD sizzles with great jazz performances.
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