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1. Girl From Ipanema
2. Corcovado
3. It Might As Well Be Spring
4. Only Trust Your Heart
5. Corcovado
6. Garota De Ipanema
7. Voce E Eu
8. Corcovado
9. It Might As Well Be Spring
10. Eu E Voce
11. Only Trust Your Heart
12. Telephone Song
13. One Note Samba
14. Girl From Ipanema
15. Corcovado

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The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Lester's last 10 years: a must-have set
  • Don't pass this up
  • Less is more
  • Well woth the price
  • Lester Young: The Light that Failed
 The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve
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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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ASIN: B0000296VH
Release Date: 1999-10-19

Tracks:

  1. Back To The Land
  2. I Cover The Waterfront
  3. I Cover The Waterfront
  4. Somebody Loves Me
  5. I've Found A New Baby
  6. The Man I Love
  7. Peg O' My Heart
  8. I Want To Be Happy
  9. Mean To Me
  10. Too Marvelous For Words
  11. Too Marvelous For Words
  12. 'Deed I Do
  13. Encore
  14. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
  15. Up 'N' Adam
  16. Three Little Words
  17. Count Every Star
  18. Count Every Star
  19. It All Depends On You
  20. Neenah
  21. Neenah
  22. Neenah

Tracks:

  1. Jeepers, Creepers
  2. Thou Swell
  3. Thou Swell
  4. September In The Rain
  5. Undercover Girl Blues
  6. Frenesi
  7. Pete's Cafe
  8. Little Pee Blues
  9. A Foggy Day
  10. In A Little Spanish Town
  11. Let's Fall In Love
  12. Down 'N' Adam
  13. Lester Swings
  14. Slow Motion Blues
  15. Ad Lib Blues
  16. Just You, Just Me
  17. Tea For Two
  18. Indiana
  19. These Foolish Things
  20. I Can't Get Started

Tracks:

  1. Star Dust
  2. It Takes Two To Tango
  3. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
  4. Almost Like Being In Love
  5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  6. There Will Never Be Another You
  7. I'm Confessin'
  8. Willow Weep For Me
  9. This Can't Be Love
  10. Can't We Be Friends?
  11. Tenderly
  12. New D.B. Blues
  13. Jumpin' At The Woodside
  14. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
  15. Oh, Lady, Be Good!
  16. Another Mambo
  17. Come Rain Or Come Shine
  18. Rose Room
  19. Somebody Loves Me
  20. Touch Me Again ('Kiss Me Again')
  21. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

Tracks:

  1. I'm In The Mood For Love
  2. Big Top Blues
  3. Mean To Me
  4. That's All
  5. That's All
  6. Red Boy Blues
  7. Pennies From Heaven
  8. She's Funny That Way
  9. She's Funny That Way
  10. One O'Clock Jump
  11. It's The Talk Of The Town
  12. I've Found A New Baby
  13. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan

Tracks:

  1. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
  2. Gigantic Blues
  3. This Year's Kisses
  4. You Can Depend On Me
  5. Pres Returns
  6. Prisoner Of Love
  7. Taking A Chance On Love
  8. All Of Me
  9. Louise
  10. Love Is Here To Stay
  11. Love Me Or Leave Me

Tracks:

  1. St. Tropez
  2. St. Tropez
  3. Flic
  4. Ballad Medley: A Ghost Of A Chance/I Cover The Waterfront
  5. Love Is Here To Stay
  6. Sunday
  7. Perdido
  8. Waldorf Blues
  9. Waldorf Blues
  10. Sunday
  11. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me

Tracks:

  1. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
  2. Romping
  3. Gypsy In My Soul
  4. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
  5. They Can't Take That Away From Me
  6. Salute To Benny
  7. Ballad Medley: The Very Thought Of You/I Want A Little Girl/Blue And Sentimental
  8. Mean To Me
  9. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
  10. Oh, Lady, Be Good!
  11. Almost Like Being In Love
  12. Three Little Words
  13. I Cover The Waterfront
  14. I Can't Get Started

Tracks:

  1. Indiana
  2. Pennies From Heaven
  3. New D.B. Blues
  4. Lullaby Of Birdland
  5. There Will Never Be Another You
  6. Tea For Two
  7. Interview With Lester Young: Early Life
  8. Interview With Lester Young: After New Orleans
  9. Interview With Lester Young: Pres's Instruments
  10. Interview With Lester Young: Count Basie
  11. Interview With Lester Young: Racial Tension
  12. Interview With Lester Young: Influences
  13. Interview With Lester Young: Composing And Reading Music
  14. Interview With Lester Young: Recordings: Clarinet Dates
  15. Interview With Lester Young: Lady Day And Nobody's Business
  16. Interview With Lester Young: Philosophy On Music I
  17. Interview With Lester Young: Younger Saxophonists
  18. Interview With Lester Young: Basie Then And Now
  19. Interview With Lester Young: Debunking
  20. Interview With Lester Young: Philosophy On Music II
  21. Interview With Lester Young: Pres's Sound: Sitting In With Fletcher Henderson
  22. Interview With Lester Young: Joining Henderson
  23. Interview With Lester Young: Early Pres: Oliver, Bronson, Basie
  24. Interview With Lester Young: Coleman Hawkins And Henderson
  25. Interview With Lester Young: Billie Holiday
  26. Interview With Lester Young: Recording Techniques
  27. Interview With Lester Young: Pres's Favorite Singers
  28. Interview With Lester Young: Philosophy On Music Vis-A-Vis Other Tenor Players
  29. Interview With Lester Young: Records New And Old
  30. Interview With Lester Young: Mahalia Jackson

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With his airy, vibratoless tone and sophisticated harmonic imagination, Lester Young (1909-59) was arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist after Coleman Hawkins. As the star in Count Basie's big band and Billie Holiday's favorite soloist, Young's breezy solos, along with his patented porkpie hat and unique hipster jargon, affected legions of musicians. This 8-CD compilation marks the 90th anniversary of Young's birth and contains all of the recordings he made for producer Norman Granz from 1946 to 1959, the last 13 years of Young's life. This collection aurally illustrates his supernatural ability to enliven the most familiar pop tunes and rise above his own pharmaceutically challenged physical state to create magic. The keys to Young's music making is his emphasis on knowing the lyrics to songs and on telling a story, delivering a melodic solo that communicates as it innovates.

Composed primarily of small combos, these tracks' themes are set by the piano players. Nat King Cole's walking bass lines and drummer Buddy Rich's pepperings cushion Young's Icarusian flights on "I Cover the Waterfront," "The Man I Love," and "Polka Dots and Moonbeams." On "I Found a New Baby" Young's delivery previews the bebop of Charlie Parker and on "Too Marvelous for Words" Young's subtones echo the long, tall sounds of Dexter Gordon. A quartet with pianist John Lewis, drummer and Basie bandmate Jo Jones, and bassist Gene Ramey offers similar results with Young's poetic versions of the riff tune "Neenah" and "Three Little Words," with Lewis's telepathic comping. Oscar Peterson's supersonic style, Barney Kessel's guitar, bassist Ray Brown, and percussionist J.C. Heard light a fire under Young on the down-home "Ad Lib Blues" and "It Takes Two to Tango"--with Young's hilarious vocal. With another quintet featuring Gildo Mahones at the keys and Connie Kay at the traps, Young revisits his days with Count Basie on the festive "Jumpin' at the Woodside." Another Basie bandmate, Harry "Sweets" Edison, lends his territory-toned chops to the hit "One O'Clock Jump." On "You Can Depend on Me" and "Gigantic Blues" Roy Eldridge's hot trumpet and Vic Dickenson's muscular trombone provide the perfect counterpoint to Young's ethereal excursions. The two takes of "St. Tropez" are the only recordings with Young on clarinet, and the leader delves into Latin jazz on "Frenesi," "In a Little Spanish Town," and "Another Mambo."

By the time he made his last sessions in Paris in 1959 with drummer Kenny Clarke and pianist Rene Urtreger, Young had lost his technical luster, but he gained a deep spiritual presence, as evidenced by the haunting takes on "I Cover the Waterfront" and "Oh, Lady, Be Good." The noted jazz author John Chilton's biographical essay, along with Harry "Sweets" Edison's loving memoir, Dave Gelly's musicological analysis, and two recorded interviews with Young are detailed, profane, and informative. But Bryan Koniarz's "Hipster's Dictionary" of Young's slang steals the show. From the Lestorian lexicon we get words like "Far Out" for guitarist Slim Gaillard, "little claps" for applause, and "Lady Day" for Billie Holiday, who in turn named the great saxophonist "Prez," for he was the commander in chief of jazz. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Lester's last 10 years: a must-have set.......2005-11-04

An 8-CD box set is a major investment for most people, but without a doubt this set is worth every penny. After recording for mainly Savoy and Aladdin for a few years after the war, Lester signed on with Norman Granz's Verve label (Clef/Norgran/Verve) and remained with the label for the last ten years of his life. Lester's entire recording career going back to the Basie days spanned only about 23 years, so this box set gathers almost half (time-wise) of Pres's recorded output.

It's an exhilarating compilation of music, and captures some of Lester's finest post-war performances on the earlier discs, while tracing his gradual at first, and then very sudden, decline in power as his health became poor. The first 3 discs are virtually flawless, with one gem after another flowing from Young's tenor. Beginning with the famous trio date with Nat Cole and Buddy Rich that produced the masterpieces BACK TO THE LAND and I WANT TO BE HAPPY (though the sound here and on every CD issue of this date I've listened to isn't as good as the LP re-issue from the 1970s) and continuing with lengthy sessions with Hank Jones, John Lewis, and Oscar Peterson, the music remains at a very high level. THREE LITTLE WORDS, IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOU, NEENAH,, JEEPERS CREEPERS, AD LIB BLUES, a gorgeous STAR DUST, among many others all capture Pres laying down unforgettable jazz performances.

In the early '50s he established a working band that included Jesse Drakes on trumpet, and quite a few sessions feature this group. And as the decade continued he also recorded with Sweets Edison and Roy Eldridge. By 1956, however, Lester's health began to suffer, and so did his recordings. Some of his last albums (GOING FOR MYSELF, IN PARIS) are painful to listen to (only because earlier efforts were so outstanding), but even here Pres can at times rise to the occasion (the tune PRES RETURNS is brilliant).

Lester Young was one of the giants in jazz and anyone interested in the music must hear the wonderful things this man created. A ridiculous argument has gone on for years in jazz circles that all of Lester's worthwhile recordings were made with Basie prior to the war and that his army experience ruined him with nothing of musical value coming after that - ridiculous, as I said. This box set will hopefully put that argument to rest. There are many, many brilliant recordings here, and these 8-CDs go far in providing us with an honest picture of a genius, in good times and bad. The packaging is very handsome and there's a 100-page booklet, informative and interesting, included. I have very BIG EYES for this set. A must-have CD set in my book.

5 out of 5 stars Don't pass this up.......2003-06-20

This set is a thing of beauty. The music swings and is full of blues and ballads by a man who could tell a story. The critera Prez was after was beauty and his playing is all that. You get the six classics albums on verve (see below) plus others and two interviews, and a 140 page booklet. The sound is great and the guests are a whos who of great jazz. As far as the very last cd and Prez's playing-well give the man a break-he just got out of the hospital, but the backup band more than make up for it. The Oscar Peterson session is wonderful but is not "all you need"-if you like pure swinging beautiful music here you go. don't listen to critics-listen to the music. Prez was critisized when he didn't sound like Coleman Hawkins and now is critisized for not sounding like he did when he played with Count Basie-this is addressed during one of the interviews. He didn't want to sound like he did with basie-here he is featured at his best. A desert island set for sure.

2 out of 5 stars Less is more.......2001-12-18

Avoid this set; instead, buy the wonderful "Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio". Everything on the Oscar Peterson disk is in this box set. Added to that are at least two disks of late-career material that is painful to listen to; it's incredible how badly he played in his last years. The last disk is mostly interviews which are awful. The questions are elementary and uninteresting ("When did you write 'Lester Leaps in'?"), and the replies are rambling, often incoherent. In the other material, there is certainly some nice stuff; even on the later cuts, Harry Edison almost saves the day with his beautiful playing. But in the end, spend [some money] for the Oscar Peterson disk, and you'll have all you need.

5 out of 5 stars Well woth the price.......2001-08-22

I've always been more of a Miles fan, but since hearing a few tracks of 'The Prez', I took the plunge and bought this set.

I'm happy to say that I have it on a good deal. It's fantastic background music, and I'm glad I didn't just buy one or two of his disks.

There's also a huge book with it (84 pages maybe?) That has a complete biography, as well as a list of Jazz terms he has been credited with coining. (Though crediting him with some of them might be a little far fetched) As Mose Allison tells us....

"Sold all my Basie with Lester

I ain't got nothing but the Blues"

You won't be sorry.

4 out of 5 stars Lester Young: The Light that Failed.......2000-01-30

If you're seriously into Lester Young, you must, of course, own this set. But, while the first five discs will give you many hours of unalloyed joy, there is a scary, deepening sadness that comes with the final three. These are the last days of Lester, and beginning about halfway through disc six, you can hear the magic leaving him. From then on, he seems to shrink, suddenly losing all sense of the beat, sometimes playing only a few wayward notes, inept as any amateur on the instrument. By the time you hit the last Paris sessions of 1959, it is painful to listen to. What makes it even worse is the occasional flash, like dying lightning, of the old genius. You find yourself wondering what on earth prompted someone to record these last sessions. The collection includes two interviews with Young, which every fan must hear, and a great little book. And as I said at the outset, through most of this collection, the magic is still there. But you won't often revisit those last discs . . . unless you're the kind of person who likes looking at car wrecks.
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    Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
    Manufacturer: Universal
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00009KM5Y
    Release Date: 2003-07-07

    Tracks:

    1. Girl from Ipanema [45 RPM Issue]
    2. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
    3. It Might as Well Be Spring
    4. Only Trust Your Heart
    5. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
    6. Garde Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema) - Stan Getz, , Astrud Gilberto
    7. Voc Eu
    8. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
    9. It Might as Well Be Spring
    10. Eu E Voce (Me and You)
    11. Only Trust Your Heart
    12. Telephone Song
    13. One Note Samba
    14. Girl from Ipanema [45 RPM Issue]
    15. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
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      		Sessions on Verve
      Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
      Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      Brazilian JazzBrazilian Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B00000B8XP
      Release Date: 1996-09-04

      Tracks:

      1. Girl from Ipanema [45 RPM Issue]
      2. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
      3. It Might as Well Be Spring
      4. Only Trust Your Heart
      5. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
      6. Garde Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema) - Stan Getz, , Astrud Gilberto
      7. Voc Eu
      8. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
      9. It Might as Well Be Spring
      10. Eu E Voce (Me and You)
      11. Only Trust Your Heart
      12. Telephone Song
      13. One Note Samba
      14. Girl from Ipanema [45 RPM Issue]
      15. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)

      Album Description

      Japanese exclusive compilation featuring material recorded between March 1963 & October 1964. 15 tracks including the original 45 RPM versions of, 'The Girl From Ipanema' & 'Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)'.

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      Japanese Exclusive Collaboration.

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