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LESTER SWINGS

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In selecting a little over an hour's worth of excerpts from the eight CD box set The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve for this highlights disc, the compilers have resisted the urge to stick with only a collection of Young's more accomplished early works and included a few examples of his deteriorated, but still moving, later work. They have hedged their bets somewhat, however, by not sequencing things chronologically, so that the album closes with a 1949 recording of the pop song "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" rather than, say, "Waldorf Blues" from 1958. Early or late, Young's playing is readily identifiable, if only for the chances it takes, whether on the up tempo "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" or the strikingly excessive introductory blowing on the opening phrases of "Love Is Here to Stay." Young's associates on the tracks constitute a who's who of his contemporaries, including Ray Brown, Nat "King" Cole, Hary "Sweets" Edison, Roy Eldridge, Herb Ellis, Hank Jones, Jo Jones, Connie Kay, John Lewis, Oscar Peterson, Buddy Rich, and Teddy Wilson.

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Ad Lib Blues

I Cover The Waterfront

Lester Swings

Undercover Girl Blues

It's The Talk Of The Town

This Year's Kisses

Up 'N Adam

They Can't Take That Away From Me

It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

Love Is Here To Stay

Waldorf Blues

All Of Me

Polka Dots And Moonbeams

Collective Personnel: Vic Dickenson, Buddy Rich, John Lewis, Hank Jones, Herb Ellis, Nat 'King' Cole, Mickey Sheen, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Freddie Green, Gene Ramey, more

Label:	UNIVERSAL
Number:	547772
Item Code:	26926
Format:	CD
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Dates:	(1946-1958)
Price:	$14.00

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