Boxset / Compilation · 1995
Tracklist
CD1:
01. Indiana
02. I Can't Get Started
03. Tea for Two
04. Body and Soul
05. D.B. Blues
06. Lester Blows Again
07. These Foolish Things
08. Jumpin' at Mesner's
09. It's Only a Paper Moon
10. After You've Gone
11. Lover Come Back to Me
12. Jammin' with Lester
13. You're Driving Me Crazy
14. New Lester Leaps In
15. Lester's Be Bop Boogie
16. She's Funny That Way
17. Sunday
18. S.M. Blues
CD2:
01. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid
02. No Eyes Blues
03. Sax-O-Be-Bop
04. On the Sunny Side of the Street
05. Easy Does It
06. Easy Does It (alternate take)
07. Movin' with Lester
08. One O'Clock Jump
09. Jumpin' at the Woodside
10. I'm Confessin'
11. Lester Smooths It Out
12. Just Cooling
13. Tea for Two
14. East of the Sun
15. The Sheik of Araby
16. Something to Remember You By
17. Riffin' Without Helen
18. Please Let Me Forget
19. He Don't Love Me Anymore
20. Pleasing Man Blues
21. See See Rider
22. It's Better to Give Than Receive
Line-up/Musicians
[Cd. 1, # 1-4]
Lester Young - ts
Nat "King" Cole - p
Red Callender - b
Recorded in Los Angeles ; July 15, 1942
[Cd. 1, # 5-8]
Lester Young - ts
Vic Dickenson - tb
Dodo Marmarosa - p
Red Callender - b
Henry Tucker - dr
Recorded in Los Angeles ; December, 1945
[Cd. 1, # 9-12]
Lester Young - ts
Willie Smith - as
Wesley Jones - p
Curtis Counce - b
Johnny Otis - dr
Recorded in Los Angeles ; January, 1946
[Cd. 1, # 13-16]
Lester Young - ts
Joe Albany - p
Irving Ashby - g
Red Callender - b
Chico Hamilton - dr
Recorded in Los Angeles ; August, 1946
[Cd. 1, # 17-18 & Cd. 2, # 1-4]
Lester Young - ts
Shorty McConnell - tp
Argonne Thornton - p
Fred Lacey - g
Rodney Richardson - b
Lyndell Marshall - dr
Recorded in Chicago ; October, 1946
[Cd. 2, # 5-9]
Same as above, except
Ted Briscoe - b, replaces Richardson
Roy Haynes - dr, replaces Marshall
Recorded at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles ; February 18, 1947
[Cd. 2, # 10-12]
Same as [Cd. 2, #1-4]
Nasir Barakaaf - g, replaces Briscoe
Recorded in New York City ; April 2, 1947
[Cd. 2, # 13-16]
Lester Young - ts
Gene DiNovi - p
Chuck Wayne - g
Curly Russell - b
Tiny Kahn - dr
Recorded at WOR Studios, New York City ; December 29, 1947
[Cd. 2, # 17-22]
Helen Humes - vcl
Lester Young & Maxwell Davis - ts
Willie Smith - as
Dave Barbour - g
Jimmy Bunn - p
Junior Rudd - b
Henry Tucker - dr
Recorded in Los Angeles ; December 22, 1945
About this release
Blue Note
Thanks to snobb for the addition