Lester Young - Young, Lester

6 (Back Home Again In) Indiana
1 [interview: Basie Then and Now]
1 [interview: Billie Holiday]
1 [interview: Coleman Hawkins and Henderson]
1 [interview: Composing and Reading Music / The Family Band / With Orchestra]
1 [interview: Count Basie]
1 [interview: Debunking]
1 [interview: Early Life / Birthplace / Music in New Orleans / Young's Father]
1 [interview: Early Pres: Oliver, Bronson, Basie]
1 [interview: Influences]
1 [interview: Joining Henderson]
1 [interview: Lady Day and Nobody's Business]
1 [interview: Mahalia Jackson]
1 [interview: Philosophy on Music I]
1 [interview: Philosophy on Music II]
1 [interview: Philosophy on Music Vis-A-Vis Other Tenor Players]
1 [interview: Pres's Favorite Singers]
1 [interview: Pres's Instruments / Drums / Tenor Saxophone]
1 [interview: Pres's Sound: Sitting in With Fletcher Henderson]
1 [interview: Racial Tension]
1 [interview: Recording Techniques]
1 [interview: Recordings: Clarinet Dates]
1 [interview: Records New and Old]
1 [interview: Younger Saxophone]
2 A Foggy Day
1 A Ghost of a Chance
3 A Sailboat in the Moonlight
2 Ad Lib Blues
1 Ad Lib Blues (feat. The Oscar Peterson Trio)
1 Ad-Lib Blues
1 After Theater Jump (D Wells)
1 After Theatre Jump
1 After You've Gone
1 Afternoon of a Basie-Ite
1 Afternoon of a Basie-Ite (L Young)
6 All of Me
5 Almost Like Being in Love
1 Another Mambo
5 Back to the Land
1 Ballad Medley: A Ghost of a Chance / I Cover the Waterfront
1 Ballad Medley: The Very Thought of You / I Want a Little Girl
1 Beautiful Eyes
1 Beautiful Eyes (T Snyder, G Whitting, C Dehaven)
1 Big Top Blues
1 Blitzkrieg Baby (F & D Fisher)
1 Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can't Bomb Me)
1 Blowed and Gone
1 Blue E Sentimental
5 Blue Lester
2 Blues 'n' Bells
5 Body and Soul
1 Boogie Woogie
1 Broadway
1 Can't We Be Friends?
1 Cherokee, Parts 1 & 2
1 China Boy
2 Chris 'N' Diz
1 Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie
2 Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
1 Come Rain or Come Shine
1 Confessin'
1 Count Every Star
1 Count Every Star (Master take)
2 Countless Blues
1 Countless Blues (M Gabler)
1 Crazy Over J.Z.
6 D.B. Blues
1 'Deed I Do
1 Destination K.C.
2 Dickie's Dream
1 Dickie's Dream (C Basie, L Young)
1 Ding Dong
1 Doggin' Arround
1 Down 'n' Adam
1 East of the Sun
1 East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)
3 Easy Does It
1 Easy Does It (alternate take)
1 Easy Living
1 Embraceable You
2 Encore
3 Every Tub
1 Exactly Like You
1 Exercise in Swing
1 Exercise in Swing (J Guarnieri)
1 Fat Hat Blues
1 Five O'Clock Whistle
1 Flic
1 Frenesi
2 Getting Some Fun Out of Life
2 Ghost of a Chance
1 Ghost of a Chance (V Young, B Crosby, n Washington)
2 Gigantic Blues
1 Good Morning Blues (C Basie, E Durham, J Rushing)
1 Gypsy in My Soul
1 Ham 'N' Eggs
1 He Ain't Got Rhythm
1 He Don't Love Me Anymore
1 Hello Babe
1 He's Funny That Way
1 Honeysuckle Rose
1 Honeysuckle Rose (excerpt)
1 Honeysuckle Rose (F Waller, a Razaf)
1 How High the Moon
1 I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
7 I Can't Get Started
1 I Can't Get Started (With You)
1 I Can't Give You Anything but Love
1 I Cover the Water Front
3 I Cover the Waterfront
1 I Cover the Waterfront (12" LP take)
1 I Cover the Waterfront (Master take)
1 I Cover the Waterfront (take one)
1 I Cover the Waterfront (take two)
4 I Didn't Know What Time It Was
2 I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
4 I Got Rhythm
1 I Got Thythm (G & I Gershwin)
1 I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
1 I Must Have That Man!
4 I Never Knew
3 I Want a Little Girl
7 I Want to Be Happy
2 If Dreams Come True
1 I'm confessin
2 I'm Confessin'
5 I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
1 I'm in the Mood for Love
3 In a Little Spanish Town
5 Indiana
1 It All Depends on You
1 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
2 It Takes Two to Tango
1 It's Better to Give Than Receive
4 It's Only a Paper Moon
1 It's the Talk of the Town
8 I've Found a New Baby
1 Jammin' With Lester
1 Jeepers Creepers
1 Jive at Five
3 Jump Lester Jump
1 Jump, Lester, Jump
1 Jump, Lester, Jump (L Young)
2 Jumpin' at Mesner's
4 Jumpin' at the Woodside
5 Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
1 Jumping With Symphony Sid
2 Just Cooling
2 Just Jivin' Around
7 Just You, Just Me
1 Just You, Just Me (J Greer, R Klages)
1 Lady Be Good
2 Lester Blows Again
3 Lester Leaps Again
8 Lester Leaps In
1 Lester Leaps In (Alt. version)
1 Lester Leaps In (L. Young)
1 Lester Leaps In (version 1)
1 Lester Leaps In (version 2)
1 Lester Leaps in Again (B Clayton)
2 Lester Smooths It Out
1 Lester Swings
2 Lester's Be Bop Boogie
1 Lester's Be-Bop Boogie
1 Lester's Blues
1 Lester's Dream
1 Lester's Dream (C. Basie-L. Young)
1 Let's Fall in Love
1 Linger Awhile (V Rose, H Owens)
1 Little Pee Blues
1 Live and Love Tonight
1 Louise
2 Love Is Here to Stay
4 Love Me or Leave Me
3 Lover, Come Back to Me
3 Lullaby of Birdland
1 Me, Myself and I
7 Mean to Me
2 Midnight Symphony
1 Movin' With Lester
2 Neenah
2 Neenah (alternate take)
1 Neenah (Master take)
3 New D.B. Blues
2 New Lester Leaps In
1 No Eyes Blues
1 Oh Lady, Be Good!
2 Oh! Lady Be Good (G & I Gershwin)
3 Oh, Lady Be Good
2 Oh, Lady, Be Good!
7 On the Sunny Side of the Street
1 On the Sunny Side of the Street (2)
1 On the Sunny Side of the Street (J McHugh, D Fields)
4 One O'Clock Jump
1 Pagin the Devil
2 Pagin' the Devil
1 Pagin' the Devil Acoutisc (W Page, M Gabler)
1 Pagin' the Devil Live (W Page, M Gabler)
1 Pannassie Stomp
4 Peg o' My Heart
1 Peg O'My Heart
6 Pennies From Heaven
1 Perdido (incomplete take)
1 Pete's Cafe
1 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
1 Please Let Me Forget
1 Pleasing Man Blues
8 Polka Dots and Moonbeams
1 Poor Little Plaything
2 Pound Cake
2 Pound Cake (feat. Count Basie and His Orchestra)
2 Pres Returns
1 Prez
1 Prez's Mood
2 Prisoner of Love
1 Red Boy Blues
1 Riffin' Without Helen
1 Romping
1 Rose Room
1 Rosetta
2 S.M. Blues
1 Sad Eyes
1 Salute to Benny
1 Salute to Fats
1 Salute to Fats (J Guarnieri)
1 Sax-A-Plenty
2 Sax-O-Be-Bop
1 See See Rider
1 September in the Rain
3 She's Funny That Way
1 She's Funny That Way (breakdown)
1 She's Funny That Way (master take)
2 Shoe Shine Boy
1 Shorty George
1 Six Cats and a Prince
1 Slow Motion Blues
5 Somebody Loves Me
4 Something to Remember You By
5 Sometimes I'm Happy
1 Sometimes I'm Happy (V. Youmans-I. Caesar)
1 St. Louis Blues, Part 2
1 St. Tropez (alternate take)
1 St. Tropez (master take)
1 Star Dust
1 Stardust
2 Sunday
1 Sunday (master take)
1 Sunday (rejected version)
1 Sunny Side of the Street
1 Sweet Georgia Brown
1 Sweet Lorraine
1 Swinging the Blues
1 Taking a Chance on Love
3 Taxi War Dance
1 Taxi War Dance (C Basie, L Young)
7 Tea for Two
2 Tenderly
1 Tenor King
2 That's All
1 That's All (alternate take)
1 That's All (master take)
6 The Man I Love
2 The Sheik of Araby
1 Them There Eyes
3 There Will Never Be Another You
1 There'll Never Be Another You
7 These Foolish Things
2 They Can't Take That Away From Me
1 Things About Coming My Way
1 This Can't Be Love
5 This Year's Kisses
1 Thou Swell (Canada 78Rpm take)
1 Thou Swell (USA 78Rpm take)
5 Three Little Words
3 Tickle Toe
1 Tickle Toe (L. Young)
3 Too Marvelous for Words
1 Too Marvelous for Words (78rpm take)
1 Too Marvelous for Words (LP take)
1 Touch Me Again
2 Twelfth Street Rag
2 Undercover Girl Blues
1 Up and at 'em
1 Up and at 'em (Alt. version)
2 Up 'n' Adam
1 Upright Organ (G Hardman)
1 Waldorf Blues (alternate take)
1 Waldorf Blues (master take)
1 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
1 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (JT Layton, H Creamer)
1 When You're Smiling
1 When You're Smiling (I Shay, J Goodwin, M Fisher)
1 Willow Weep for Me
2 You Can Depend on Me
1 You Can Depend on Me (E Himes, C Carpenter, L Dunlop)
3 You're Driving Me Crazy
1 You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me
1 You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me (alternate take)