The complete Aladdin recordings of Lester Young.

Format Audio (CD)
PublicationHollywood, CA : Blue Note, [1995]
Copyright Date℗1995
Description2 audio discs (122 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorYoung, Lester, 1909-1959 instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorCole, Nat King, 1919-1965 instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorHumes, Helen singer.
Other author/creatorHanley, James F. (James Frederick), 1892-1942. Indiana.
Other author/creatorMacDonald, Ballard.
Other author/creatorDuke, Vernon, 1903-1969. Ziegfeld follies of 1936. I can't get started.
Other author/creatorGershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.
Other author/creatorYoumans, Vincent, 1898-1946. No, no, Nanette. Tea for two; arranged.
Other author/creatorCaesar, Irving, 1895-1996.
Other author/creatorGreen, Johnny, 1908-1989.
Other author/creatorHeyman, Edward, 1907-1981.
Other author/creatorSour, Robert.
Other author/creatorEyton, Frank.
Other author/creatorKing Pleasure.
Other author/creatorMarvell, Holt, 1901-1969.
Other author/creatorStrachey, Jack F.
Other author/creatorLink, Harry, 1896-1956.
Other author/creatorRose, Billy, 1899-1966.
Other author/creatorHarburg, E. Y. (Edgar Yipsel), 1896-1981.
Other author/creatorArlen, Harold, 1905-1986.
Other author/creatorCreamer, Henry, 1879-1930.
Other author/creatorLayton, Turner, 1894-1978.
Other author/creatorRomberg, Sigmund, 1887-1951. New moon. Lover, come back to me.
Other author/creatorHammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960.
Other author/creatorDonaldson, Walter, 1893-1947.
Other author/creatorMoret, Neil, 1878-1943.
Other author/creatorWhiting, Richard A., 1891-1938.
Other author/creatorMiller, Ned.
Other author/creatorKrueger, Bennie C. (Bennie Charles), 1904-
Other author/creatorConn, Chester.
Other author/creatorStyne, Jule, 1905-1994.
Other author/creatorMcHugh, Jimmy, 1894-1969.
Other author/creatorFields, Dorothy, 1905-1974.
Other author/creatorBasie, Count, 1904-1984.
Other author/creatorNeiburg, Al.
Other author/creatorDaugherty, Doc.
Other author/creatorReynolds, Ellis.
Other author/creatorBowman, Brooks, 1913-1937.
Other author/creatorSnyder, Ted, 1881-1965.
Other author/creatorSmith, Harry B. (Harry Bache), 1860-1936.
Other author/creatorWheeler, Francis.
Other author/creatorSchwartz, Arthur, 1900-1984.
Other author/creatorDietz, Howard, 1896-1983.
Other author/creatorCallender, Red.
Other author/creatorHathaway, Martin.
Other author/creatorCuscuna, Michael producer.
Variant title Title on container spine: Lester Young-The Complete Aladdin Sessions
Variant title Complete Aladdin sessions
SeriesTomtheJazzman Collection
TomtheJazzman Collection. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Disc 1. Indiana / James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald (4:50) -- I can't get started / Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin (4:53) -- Tea for two / Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar (4:45) -- Body and soul / Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton (5:07) -- D.B. Blues / Lester Young, King Pleasure (2:58) -- Lester blows again / Lester Young (2:29) -- These foolish things / Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link (3:08) -- Jumpin' at Mesner's / Lester Young (2:42) -- It's only a paper moon / Billy Rose, E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen (3:03) -- After you've gone / Henry Creamer, Turner Layton (2:40) -- Lover come back to me / Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II (2:35) -- Jammin' with Lester / Lester Young (3:01) -- You're driving me crazy / Walter Donaldson (3:03) -- New Lester leaps in / Lester Young (2:55) -- Lester's be bop boogie / Lester Young (3:12) -- She's funny that way / Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting (3:17) -- Sunday / Ned Miller, Bennie Krueger, Chester Conn, Jule Styne (2:22) -- S.M. Blues / Lester Young (3:00).
Contents Disc 2. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid / Lester Young (3:09) -- No eyes blue / Lester Young (2:57) -- Sax-O-Be-Bop / Lester Young (2:50) -- On the sunny side of the street / Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields (2:57) -- Easy does it / Lester Young (2:31) -- Easy does it (alternate take) / Lester Young (2:27) -- Movin' with Lester / Lester Young (2:43) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie (2:36) -- Jumpin' at the woodside / Count Basie (2:57) -- I'm confessin' / A. J. Neiburg, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds (2:29) -- Lester smooths it out / Lester Young (2:52) -- Just cooling / Lester Young (2:56) -- Tea for two / Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar (3:05) -- East of the sun / Brooks Bowman (3:07) -- The Sheik of Araby / Ted Snyder, Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler (2:29) -- Something to remember you by / Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz (2:42) -- Riffin' without Helen (improvisation) (3:10) -- Please let me forget / Red Callender (3:07) -- He don't love me anymore / Martin Hathaway (2:49) -- Pleasing man blues / H. Brock (3:03) -- See see rider / Ma Rainey (2:46) -- It's better to give than receive / Helen Humes, M. LeMayes (2:55).
Abstract "This two-disc set contains every item that Lester Young recorded for Aladdin including the rare 1942 trio session with Nat Cole and a 1946 Helen Humes date, from which comes a newly discovered instrumental"--Container.
General noteTitle from disc label.
General noteCompact discs.
General noteProgram notes in English by Leonard Feather (10 unnumbered pages ; portraits) inserted in container.
CreditsReissue produced by Michael Cuscuna.
Performer Lester Young, tenor saxophone ; with variously: Helen Humes, vocals ; Nat King Cole, Dodo Mamarosa, Wesley Jones, Joe Albany, Argonne Thornton (Sadik Hakim), Gene DiNovi, Jimmy Bunn, piano ; Red Callender, Curtis Counce, Ted Briscoe, Rodney Richardson, Curly Russell, Junior Rudd, bass ; Vic Dickenson, trombone ; Henry Tucker, Johnny Otis, Chico Hamilton, Roy Haynes, Lyndell Marshall, Tiny Kahn, drums ; Willie Smith, alto saxophone ; Howard McGhee, Shorty McConnell, trumpet ; Irving Ashby, Fred Lacey, Nasir Barakaat, Chuck Wayne, Dave Barbour, guitar ; Maxwell Davis, tenor saxophone.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded 1942-1947.
LanguageVocal selections sung in English.
LCCN 00523929
UPC 724383278725
Publisher numberCDP 7243 8 32787 2 5 Blue Note
Publisher number7243 833893 2 2