1. LESTER LEAPS IN AGAIN (TAKE 1) (COUNT BASIE KANSAS CITY SEVE 2. AFTER THEATRE JUMP (TAKE 2) (COUNT BASIE KANSAS CITY SEVEN & 3. DESTINATION K.C. (TAKE 1) (COUNT BASIE KANSAS CITY SEVEN & L 4. I NEVER KNEW (TAKE 2) (COUNT BASIE KANSAS CITY SEVEN & LESTE 5. JUST YOU, JUST ME (TAKE 2) (COUNT BASIE KANSAS CITY SEVEN & 6. AFTERNOON OF A BASIE-ITE (TAKE 2) (COUNT BASIE KANSAS CITY S 7. SOMETIMES I'M HAPPY (TAKE 2) (COUNT BASIE KANSAS CITY SEVEN 8. (I DON'T STAND) GHOST OF A CHANCE (BLUE LESTER) 9. CRAZY OVER JAZZ (BLUE LESTER) 10. DING DONG (BLUE LESTER) 11. (BACK HOME AGAIN IN) INDIANA (BLUE LESTER) 12. THESE FOOLISH THINGS (BLUE LESTER) 13. EXERCISE IN SWING (BLUE LESTER) 14. BLUES 'N BELLS (BLUE LESTER) 15. SALUTE TO FATS (BLUE LESTER) 16. JUNE BUG (BLUE LESTER) 17. BLUE LESTER (BLUE LESTER) 18. JUMP, LESTER JUMP (BLUE LESTER) 19. BASIE ENGLISH (BLUE LESTER) 1. I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO CHANGE MY PLAN (THE JAZZ GIANTS '56) 2. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS (THE JAZZ GIANTS '56) 3. GIGANTIC BLUES (THE JAZZ GIANTS '56) 4. THIS YEAR'S KISSES (THE JAZZ GIANTS '56) 5. YOU CAN DEPEND ON ME (THE JAZZ GIANTS '56) 6. SWINGIN' AT NEWPORT (COUNT BASIE AT NEWPORT) 7. POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS (COUNT BASIE AT NEWPORT) 8. LESTER LEAPS IN (COUNT BASIE AT NEWPORT) 9. SENT FOR YOU YESTERDAY (AND HERE YOU COME TODAY) (COUNT BASI 10. BOOGIE WOOGIE (I MAY BE WRONG) (COUNT BASIE AT NEWPORT) 11. EVENIN' (COUNT BASIE AT NEWPORT) 12. ONE O'CLOCK JUMP (COUNT BASIE AT NEWPORT)
Number of discs:
2
Description:
AVID Jazz setzt seine FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS Serie mit einer neu gemasterten
2CD-Zweitveröffentlichung von Lester Young fort, komplett mit Original-Artwork & Liner Notes.
Enthaltene Alben: 'Count Basie Kansas City Seven & Lester Young Quartet' | 'Blue Lester' | 'The Jazz Giants '56' | 'Count Basie At Newport'
Lester Willis Young, genannt â??Prezâ?? oder â??Presâ??, war ein US-amerikanischer Tenorsaxophonist und
Klarinettist. Lester Young war einer der einflussreichen Saxophonisten des Jazz. Seine Spielweise markiert
den Punkt des Ã?bergangs vom Swing zum Bebop. Charakteristisch waren â?? ganz im Gegensatz zum
kraftvollen Sound von Coleman Hawkins â?? sein schlanker, heller Ton und sein elegantes Spiel. Einen
hörbaren Einfluss auf das Spiel von Lester Young hatte Frankie Trumbauer. Gemeinsam mit dem
Gitarristen Charlie Christian und dem Bassisten Jimmy Blanton, war er eine der Schlüsselfiguren des Jazz
in den frühen 1940er Jahren. -