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List Price: £9.99
Our Price: £5.99
Artist:
Lester Young
First coming to prominence with Count Basie's band in 1936, Lester Young found a new way to play tenor saxophone, using a soft, airy sound and an understated beat. In the process, he also created a new way to play jazz, developing a flowing, melodic inventiveness and a detachment that would influence the bop and cool schools to come. Young did much of his best work as a sideman in the first few years of his public career, and the first 13 tracks of this collection focus on his work up to 1940. Basie's hard-swinging big band was a terrific foil for Young's own novel blend of rhythmic invention and languid sound, heard here on tunes like "Taxi War Dance" and the uptempo "Twelfth Street Rag". With Basie's smaller Kansas City Seven, Young created masterpieces like his signature "Lester Leaps In". Young and his friend Billie Holiday shared an uncanny musical empathy, represented by four tracks here. There's also a sampling of Young's later recordings, including his trio version of "I've Found a New Baby", with Nat Cole on piano and Buddy Rich on drums, and "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" from a 1957 reunion with Basie at the Newport Jazz Festival. --Stuart Broomer
 A definitive introduction to the Prez, 2001-11-06
As a young Jazz fan who hasn't heard any Lester Young before, I found this an excellent compilation. It spans his whole career, and all record labels. Some of the earlier tracks have poor sound quality, but it picks up later on. My favourites include 'Lester Leaps in' and 'Tickle Toe.' His soloing is exquisite throughout, but tracks tracks are highlight his smooth, light tone excellently.
Artist:
Fleurine,
Renee Rosnes,
Tom Harrell,
Jesse Van Ruller
A NEW JAZZ STAR NOT TO BE MISSED!, 2000-11-21
A very swinging great debut!! Fleurine is a fresh new vibrant spark on the jazzvocal scene, she sings jazz, swings jazz and translates it into lyrics. Vocal veteran Jon Hendricks says about Fleurine: I can relax now, Fleurine is on the scene; she not only exemplifies this artform at it's best but also shows that you don't have to be born in American to be great! Fantastic accompanists such as jazzstars Christian McBride,and notably Tom Harrell soloing on his beautiful tune"'Sail Away" with portuguese lyrics by Fleurine, make this record a very swinging great debut!! Fleurine is one of the most compelling new voices in Jazz that I've encountered in a long while and an original one too. No re-runs of 'Summertime' but great compositions by Thelonius Monk, Thad Jones, Joshua Redman, Kenny Dorham and herself with beautiful lyrics from her own pen.She is truly poetic.The horn arrangements by top arranger Don Sickler are a treat and feature Ralph Moore on sax, among others. Buy this, any lover of real Jazz won't be dissappointed! I had the great pleasure of seeing her perform live in Los Angeles with pianist Brad Mehldau for their duo ballad project "Close enough for Love- a completely different atmoshere than this album but very, very impressive too!
List Price: £15.99
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Artist:
Lester Young
There are some that still maintain that Lester Young suffered such traumas during his World War Two military service that he never again produced the joyous form that marked his playing during his Count Basie period. The trio titles on this collection give the lie to that story, for in the Spring of 1946 when the recordings were made he played brilliantly. The unusual instrumentation of just tenor, piano and drums meant that Young could not phrase behind the beat to the extent of his earlier work and this gives his playing a new impetus. He produces long, serpentine lines over the pulsating drive of Buddy Rich's expert brushwork and the glittering piano backing of Nat King Cole. (Cole had signed a contract with Capitol Records and had to appear on the original LP issue as "Aye Guy"). The trio date comes complete with a couple of alternative takes while the relaxed "Peg O' My Heart" is a tenor-piano duet produced casually while Rich left the studio temporarily in search of food. To increase the playing time to a respectable 60 minutes, four 1943 vintage Dexter Gordon Quintet titles have been added featuring another ex-Count Basie soloist, trumpeter Harry Edison. -...
List Price: £17.99
Our Price: £6.19
Artist:
Bill Harris
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