Lester Young

• 2 CD SET

• INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

This release presents a complete 1955 performance by the JATP All Stars featuring Ben Webster, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge and Sonny Stitt among others. This concert only previously appeared divided on three long out of print LPs. As a bonus, a rare set by a similar JATP group in Germany that same year, and four PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED tunes from a 1949 Carnegie Hall JATP concert featuring Fats Navarro,Sonny Criss andElla Fitzgerald

PERSONNEL:

• DIZZY GILLESPIE & ROY ELDRIDGE, trumpet
• BEN WEBSTER, LESTER YOUNG & FLIP PHILLIPS, tenor sax
• SONNY STITT, alto sax
• BILL HARRIS, trombone
• OSCAR PETERSON, piano
• HERB ELLIS, guitar
• RAY BROWN, bass
• LOUIE BELLSON, drums

Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, September 17, 1955.

• CD 2 [3-5]: Same personnel but omit Webster, Young and Stitt. Buddy DeFranco (cl) on 4 only. Live at Sportpalast, Berlin, Germany, February 10, 1955.

• CD 2 [6-9]: Fats Navarro (tp), Sonny Criss (as), Flip Phillips (ts), Tommy Turk (tb), Hank Jones (p), Ray Brown (b), Shelly Manne (d), Ella Fitzgerald (vcl on 7 & 9).
• Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, February 11, 1949

TRACKS:

• CD 1: TOTAL TIME 79:05 Min
• 01 Blues #1
• 02 I Found A New Baby
• 03 Lester Leaps In
• 04 Blues #2 [Aka The Slow Blues]
• 05 Ballad Medley #1: I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / The Man I Love / Tenderly / My Old Flame
• 06 Ballad Medley #2: Body And Soul / A Ghost Of A / Chance / Imagination / I’ll Never Be The Same
• 07 Birks’ Works [Aka The Modern Set]
• 08 Ow!

• CD 2: TOTAL TIME: 74:21 Min
• 01 I Got Rhythm
• 02 Willow, Weep For Me
• 03 Jam Session
• 04 Now’s The Time
• 05 Ballad Medley #3: Willow, Weep For Me / I Don’t Know Why / Imagination / My Old Flame
• 06 Cherokee [incomplete]
• 07 Perdido
• 08 How High The Moon
• 09 I’ve Got My Love To Keep
• 10 Me Warm </ul