Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio

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Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio
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Compilation album by
Lester Young
ReleasedJune 1954 (MGN 5-6)[1]
August 1954 (MGN 1005)[2]
RecordedNovember 28, 1952
New York City
GenreJazz
Length63:37
LabelNorgran Records
MGN 5/6/1054
Verve (reissue)
ProducerNorman Granz
Lester Young chronology

(1952) 		Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio
(1954) 		Pres and Sweets
(1955)
Oscar Peterson chronology

(1952) 		Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio
(1954) 		Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington
(1952)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic5/5 stars[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3.5/4 stars[4]

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1954 studio album by Lester Young, accompanied by Oscar Peterson's working trio of the time (featuring Ray Brown and Barney Kessel), plus drummer J. C. Heard. The music on this album was originally released as three separate albums: Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #1 and Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #2, both released in June 1954 (MGN 5 & 6), and The President (August 1954, MGN 1005). It was collated for this 1997 reissue by Verve Records.[5]

Track listing[]

  1. "Ad Lib Blues" (Oscar Peterson, Lester Young) – 5:54
  2. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 3:41
  3. "Just You, Just Me" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) – 7:40
  4. "Almost Like Being in Love" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:34
  5. "Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 7:45
  6. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:28
  7. "(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 7:04
  8. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:27
  9. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 3:35
  10. "(I'm) Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Doc Daugherty, Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds) – 3:41
  11. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Fields, McHugh) – 3:22
  12. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:27
  13. "(It Takes) Two to Tango": Rehearsal, False Start and Chatter (Al Hoffman, Dick Manning) – 6:06 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "I Can't Get Started" – 0:53 Bonus track on CD reissue

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References[]

  1. ^ Billboard June 19, 1954
  2. ^ Billboard May 5, 1956
  3. ^ Allmusic review
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1536. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio at AllMusic
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