Release Date: 03 September 2021
Label: Waxtime
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436559468190
Release Date: 23 April 2021
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436559468268
Description
Limited edition 180g audiophile pressing of this recording by Lester Young Quartet featuring legendary pianists John Lewis and Hank Jones.
Dating from 1949-51, the sessions included on this LP were taped in a quartet format showcasing the leader with a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. The dates featured the outstanding pianists Hank Jones and John Lewis, as well as Lester's friend from the early Basie years, drummer Jo Jones. By the time these sessions were recorded, Prez (Lester Young) was working at Birdland with this exact group (Lewis on piano, Gene Ramey on bass, and Jones on drums), as attested by several surviving broadcasts.
Description
ESSENTIAL JAZZ CLASSICS
LESTER YOUNG QUARTET with JOHN LEWIS & HANK JONES: ‘COLLATES’
2 ALBUMS ON 1 CD - COLLECTORS’ DELUXE DIGIPAK SERIES WITH COMPREHENSIVE INSIDE BOOKLET (LIMITED EDITION)
While Lester Young’s recordings from his final years were erratic due to his increasing dependence on alcohol (he died in 1959 at the age of 49), his playing was still brilliant on these 1949-51 quartet sessions for Norman Granz. Presented here are his complete original 10” LPs Lester Young Collates (Clef Records MGC-108) and Lester Young Collates No.2 (Clef Records MGC-124), on which he was backed alternatively by pianists John Lewis and Hank Jones. Nine more songs from the same sessions have been added as a bonus.
LESTER YOUNG, tenor sax plus:
Collective personnel: HANK JONES, JOHN LEWIS, piano; RAY BROWN, JOE SHULMAN, GENE RAMEY, bass; JO JONES, BUDDY RICH, BILL CLARK, drums.
New York, September 1949-March 1951.
1-8: Originally issued as 'Lester Young Collates', 9-16: Originally issued as 'Lester Young Collates No.2'.
BONUS TRACKS (17-25): From the same sessions, but not included on the original LPs.
All original sessions produced by NORMAN GRANZ.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Yusef Lateef
Eric Dolphy Quintet
Dorothy Ashby
Ben Webster
Oscar Peterson
Miles Davis
Yusef Lateef
Oscar Peterson
Thelonious Monk
Kenny Dorham
Miles Davis
Thom Rotella
JD Allen
Thelonious Monk
George Coleman
Charlie Parker
