Volume 90: Sax Master Young

Moving on with unofficial Franklin Mint Month we come across another extremely talented and influential saxophone player. His tragic life may have mirrored another sax player featured in a past episode, but Lester’s playing was all his own. So get ready to hear the musician Billie Holiday nicknamed Prez in Volume 90: Sax Master Young.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/08/billie-holiday-and-lester-young-friendship-between-lady-day-and-prez

Credits and copyrights

Various – Jazz Masters Of The Sax
Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 014
Series: Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection, The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time
Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Vinyl Box Set
Country: Sweden
Released: 1983
Genre: Jazz

Jones-Smith Inc. – Shoe Shine Boy
Written by Saul Chaplin
Tenor Saxophone – Lester Young
Trumpet – Carl "Tatti" Smith
Piano - Count Basie
String Bass - Walter Page
Drums - Jo Jones
Recorded Autumn 1936
Released on Vocalion Records

Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra – I Can't Get Started
Music by Vernon Duke and lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Trumpet - Buck Clayton
Trombone - Dicky Wells 
Piano – Margaret "Queenie" Johnson
Guitar - Freddie Greene
String Bass - Walter Page
Drums - Jo Jones
Vocals – Billie Holiday
Tenor Sax Lestor Young
Recorded September 15, 1938
Released on Columbia Records

Count Basie & His Orchestra– Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!
written by Billy Rose, Ballard MacDonald and Joseph Meyer
Alto Saxophone – Earle Warren
Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Jack Washington
Trombone – Dickey Wells, Benny Morton, and Dan Minor
Trumpet – Buck Clayton, Ed Lewis, Harry Edison and Shad Collins
Guitar - Freddie Greene
String Bass - Walter Page
Drums - Jo Jones
Piano - Count Basie
Alto Sax - Lester Young
Recorded August 4, 1939
Released on Vocalion Records

Young Quartet– I Never Knew
written by Gus Kahn, Ted FioRito
Piano - Johnny Guarnieri
String Bass - Slam Stewart
Drums - Sid Catlett
Alto Sax - Lester Young
Recorded on December 28, 1943
Released on Kenote Records

Young Quintet– Lester Blows Again
Written by Lester Young
Trombone – Vic Dickenson
Piano - Dodo Marmarosa
Guitar - Freddy Greene
String Bass - Red Callendar
Drums - Henry Tucker Green
Alto Sax - Lester Young
Recorded in October 1945
Released on Alladin

Young Quartet– Neenah
Could not find the composer on this one
Acoustic Bass – Joe Shulman
Drums – Bill Clarke
Piano – John Lewis
Recorded in July of 1950
Released on Clef Records

Young-Cole-Rich Trio – I Want To Be Happy
written by Vincent Youmans, Otto Harbach, Irving Caesar
Piano - Nat King Cole
Drums – Buddy Rich
Alto Sax - Lester Young
Recorded in December 1945
Released on Clef Records

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