| Other author/creator | Young, Lester, 1909-1959 instrumentalist. |
| Other author/creator | Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 instrumentalist. |
| Other author/creator | Humes, Helen singer. |
| Other author/creator | Hanley, James F. (James Frederick), 1892-1942. Indiana. |
| Other author/creator | MacDonald, Ballard. |
| Other author/creator | Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969. Ziegfeld follies of 1936. I can't get started. |
| Other author/creator | Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983. |
| Other author/creator | Youmans, Vincent, 1898-1946. No, no, Nanette. Tea for two; arranged. |
| Other author/creator | Caesar, Irving, 1895-1996. |
| Other author/creator | Green, Johnny, 1908-1989. |
| Other author/creator | Heyman, Edward, 1907-1981. |
| Other author/creator | Sour, Robert. |
| Other author/creator | Eyton, Frank. |
| Other author/creator | King Pleasure. |
| Other author/creator | Marvell, Holt, 1901-1969. |
| Other author/creator | Strachey, Jack F. |
| Other author/creator | Link, Harry, 1896-1956. |
| Other author/creator | Rose, Billy, 1899-1966. |
| Other author/creator | Harburg, E. Y. (Edgar Yipsel), 1896-1981. |
| Other author/creator | Arlen, Harold, 1905-1986. |
| Other author/creator | Creamer, Henry, 1879-1930. |
| Other author/creator | Layton, Turner, 1894-1978. |
| Other author/creator | Romberg, Sigmund, 1887-1951. New moon. Lover, come back to me. |
| Other author/creator | Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960. |
| Other author/creator | Donaldson, Walter, 1893-1947. |
| Other author/creator | Moret, Neil, 1878-1943. |
| Other author/creator | Whiting, Richard A., 1891-1938. |
| Other author/creator | Miller, Ned. |
| Other author/creator | Krueger, Bennie C. (Bennie Charles), 1904- |
| Other author/creator | Conn, Chester. |
| Other author/creator | Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. |
| Other author/creator | McHugh, Jimmy, 1894-1969. |
| Other author/creator | Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974. |
| Other author/creator | Basie, Count, 1904-1984. |
| Other author/creator | Neiburg, Al. |
| Other author/creator | Daugherty, Doc. |
| Other author/creator | Reynolds, Ellis. |
| Other author/creator | Bowman, Brooks, 1913-1937. |
| Other author/creator | Snyder, Ted, 1881-1965. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Harry B. (Harry Bache), 1860-1936. |
| Other author/creator | Wheeler, Francis. |
| Other author/creator | Schwartz, Arthur, 1900-1984. |
| Other author/creator | Dietz, Howard, 1896-1983. |
| Other author/creator | Callender, Red. |
| Other author/creator | Hathaway, Martin. |
| Other author/creator | Cuscuna, Michael producer. |
| Variant title |
Title on container spine: Lester Young-The Complete Aladdin Sessions |
| Variant title |
Complete Aladdin sessions |
| Series | TomtheJazzman 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 note | Title from disc label. |
| General note | Compact discs. |
| General note | Program notes in English by Leonard Feather (10 unnumbered pages ; portraits) inserted in container. |
| Credits | Reissue 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 note | Recorded 1942-1947. |
| Language | Vocal selections sung in English. |
| LCCN | 00523929 |
| UPC |
724383278725 |
| Publisher number | CDP 7243 8 32787 2 5 Blue Note |
| Publisher number | 7243 833893 2 2 |