The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve

The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve

Lester Young

Album
Label Verve Records, Inc. Release date Format 8×CD Country 🇺🇸 United States Discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/2506269

Tracklist 624:20

CD 1

1 Back to the Land 3:58
2 I Cover the Waterfront (12" LP take) 3:51
3 I Cover the Waterfront (Master take) 4:04
4 Somebody Loves Me 3:54
5 I've Found a New Baby 4:05
6 The Man I Love 4:51
7 Peg O' My Heart 4:05
8 I Want to Be Happy 3:58
9 Mean to Me 4:13
10 Too Marvelous for Words (78rpm take) 3:00
11 Too Marvelous for Words (LP take) 3:02
12 'Deed I Do 3:17
13 Encore 3:09
14 Polka Dots and Moonbeams 3:41
15 Up 'n' Adam 3:50
16 Three Little Words 3:19
17 Count Every Star (Master take) 3:01
18 Count Every Star 3:12
19 It All Depends on You 3:23
20 Neenah (alternate take) 3:09
21 Neenah (alternate take) 2:18
22 Neenah (Master take) 3:26

CD 2

1 Jeepers Creepers 3:07
2 Thou Swell (USA 78Rpm take) 2:55
3 Thou Swell (Canada 78Rpm take) 2:57
4 September in the Rain 3:08
5 Undercover Girl Blues 2:44
6 Frenesi 3:01
7 Pete's Cafe 3:36
8 Little Pee Blues 2:42
9 A Foggy Day 2:52
10 In a Little Spanish Town 3:14
11 Let's Fall in Love 2:57
12 Down 'n' Adam 2:57
13 Lester Swings 2:33
14 Slow Motion Blues 2:58
15 Ad Lib Blues 5:52
16 Just You, Just Me 7:39
17 Tea for Two 7:45
18 (Back Home Again In) Indiana 7:04
19 These Foolish Things 3:27
20 I Can't Get Started 4:30

CD 3

1 Star Dust 3:38
2 It Takes Two to Tango 6:06
3 On the Sunny Side of the Street 3:27
4 Almost Like Being in Love 3:34
5 I Can't Give You Anything but Love 3:23
6 There Will Never Be Another You 3:29
7 I'm Confessin' 3:44
8 Willow Weep for Me 3:09
9 This Can't Be Love 3:24
10 Can't We Be Friends? 3:10
11 Tenderly 3:29
12 New D.B. Blues 3:21
13 Jumpin' at the Woodside 3:04
14 I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me 3:13
15 Oh, Lady, Be Good! 3:30
16 Another Mambo 3:39
17 Come Rain or Come Shine 3:12
18 Rose Room 4:11
19 Somebody Loves Me 4:58
20 Touch Me Again 5:17
21 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 4:30

CD 4

1 I'm in the Mood for Love 3:32
2 Big Top Blues 4:49
3 Mean to Me 7:39
4 That's All (alternate take) 4:40
5 That's All (master take) 4:44
6 Red Boy Blues 5:33
7 Pennies From Heaven 5:24
8 She's Funny That Way (breakdown) 3:28
9 She's Funny That Way (master take) 8:52
10 One O'Clock Jump 5:37
11 It's the Talk of the Town 6:32
12 I've Found a New Baby 6:01
13 I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan 9:25

CD 5

1 I Didn't Know What Time It Was 10:01
2 Gigantic Blues 6:50
3 This Year's Kisses 6:45
4 You Can Depend on Me 9:03
5 Pres Returns 6:22
6 Prisoner of Love 7:38
7 Taking a Chance on Love 5:09
8 All of Me 5:08
9 Louise 5:16
10 Love Is Here to Stay 6:28
11 Love Me or Leave Me 6:45

CD 6

1 St. Tropez (alternate take) 7:28
2 St. Tropez (master take) 10:38
3 Flic 6:31
4 Ballad Medley: A Ghost of a Chance / I Cover the Waterfront 5:52
5 Love Is Here to Stay 5:53
6 Sunday (rejected version) 5:39
7 Perdido (incomplete take) 6:37
8 Waldorf Blues (alternate take) 6:53
9 Waldorf Blues (master take) 8:36
10 Sunday (master take) 7:02
11 You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me (alternate take) 7:39

CD 7

1 You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me 5:28
2 Romping 11:41
3 Gypsy in My Soul 4:13
4 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 6:01
5 They Can't Take That Away From Me 6:00
6 Salute to Benny 8:32
7 Ballad Medley: The Very Thought of You / I Want a Little Girl 6:36
8 Mean to Me 7:00
9 I Didn't Know What Time It Was 4:19
10 Oh, Lady, Be Good! 3:35
11 Almost Like Being in Love 3:59
12 Three Little Words 4:17
13 I Cover the Waterfront 3:47
14 I Can't Get Started 3:09

CD 8

1 (Back Home Again In) Indiana 2:46
2 Pennies From Heaven 3:19
3 New D.B. Blues 3:13
4 Lullaby of Birdland 3:42
5 There Will Never Be Another You 3:37
6 Tea for Two 3:38
7 [interview: Early Life / Birthplace / Music in New Orleans / Young's Father] 3:47
8 [interview: After New Orleans] 1:54
9 [interview: Pres's Instruments / Drums / Tenor Saxophone] 5:54
10 [interview: Count Basie] 1:41
11 [interview: Racial Tension] 2:16
12 [interview: Influences] 2:33
13 [interview: Composing and Reading Music / The Family Band / With Orchestra] 5:16
14 [interview: Recordings: Clarinet Dates] 2:55
15 [interview: Lady Day and Nobody's Business] 2:44
16 [interview: Philosophy on Music I] 1:18
17 [interview: Younger Saxophone] 1:50
18 [interview: Basie Then and Now] 2:07
19 [interview: Debunking] 1:37
20 [interview: Philosophy on Music II] 1:44
21 [interview: Pres's Sound: Sitting in With Fletcher Henderson] 2:28
22 [interview: Joining Henderson] 3:29
23 [interview: Early Pres: Oliver, Bronson, Basie] 1:13
24 [interview: Coleman Hawkins and Henderson] 1:25
25 [interview: Billie Holiday] 1:38
26 [interview: Recording Techniques] 2:00
27 [interview: Pres's Favorite Singers] 1:39
28 [interview: Philosophy on Music Vis-A-Vis Other Tenor Players] 2:59
29 [interview: Records New and Old] 2:12
30 [interview: Mahalia Jackson] 0:54