Search results for "Lester Young"

Lester Young: Lester Leaps In (1939) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Lester Young was the major influence on a generation of tenor saxophonists who preferred his relatively light, pure t...

Lester Young: Ad Lib Blues (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

This 1952 session will undoubtedly quiet anyone who criticizes Lester Young’s postwar career. Inspired by Oscar Peter...

Lester Young: There Will Never Be Another You (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music September 13, 08

You can tell how much Lester Young liked the melody of this piece. Not only does he play it with great feeling on th...

Lester Young: I've Found a New Baby (1946) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Lester Young, by Herb Snitzer During World War II, Lester Young felt a draft. Facing induction or imprisonment...

Lester Young: Just You, Just Me (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Lester Young Photo by Herb Snitzer This track includes Slam Stewart's usual shtick—singing wordl...

Lester Young: I Cover the Waterfront (1946, take two) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Musically, Lester Young was Coleman Hawkins in a funhouse mirror. The stolid muscleman, taking a break from harmonic ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Lester Young: I Want To Be Happy (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

Many critics and writers still insist that Lester Young’s artistry was in decline when he was dishonorably discharged...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Lester Young: Crazy Over J-Z (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

Two months before his fortieth birthday, Young is having the time of his life at the Royal Roost—unaware, perhaps, of...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Lester Young & Oscar Peterson: Stardust (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

Lester’s alcoholism had caught up with him by the early ‘50s, robbing him of his prowess on the saxophone. “Stardust”...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Lester Young: All of Me (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 12, 08

Propelled by Jo Jones's dynamic sticks, this tune (originally from the album Pres and Teddy) finds Pres in great shap...

Charlie Parker: Lester Leaps In (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 15, 09

Charlie Parker's live version of "Lester Leaps In" is marred only by noises that sound like the track was lifted eith...

Teddy Wilson Orchestra (with Billie Holiday): He Ain't Got Rhythm (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

Besides great jazz musicians playing superbly, this track is a sheer delight because of the lyrics, and Billie Holida...

Teddy Wilson Orchestra (with Billie Holiday): I Must Have That Man (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

From the first line of her vocal, Billie Holiday uses her unique intonation, exceptional phrasing and rhythm, and exp...

Count Basie: Dickie's Dream (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Four days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland to kick off World War II, Count Basie's Kansas City Seven invaded a New Y...

Count Basie: Shoe Shine Boy (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 12, 07

By convention, Swing Era jazzmen improvised harmonically, grinding through chord progressions as implacably as a trai...

Billie Holiday: Mean to Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

“I guess I’m not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse,” Billie Holiday recalled of a childhoo...

Houston Person: Lester Leaps In (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 03, 09

The CD is entitled Mellow, but Houston Person closes it with a track that is anything but. Lester Young's personal t...

Scott Hamilton: Young and Foolish (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

Scott Hamilton emerged in the 1970s as a polished mainstream pre-bopper at a time when most players of his generation...

Count Basie: Tickle Toe – as heard in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Lester Young grew up in a carnival, where he played in his dad's band and learned from the geeks it was okay to be di...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...

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