The best Lester Young solos
Bo Hultqvist
Lady be good and When you're smiling?
I think it has been up here lately but I missed most of it.
BosseH
Jack Woker
> Lady be good and When you're smiling?
"Foolin' Myself" (Teddy Wilson & Billie Holiday)
"Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Basie)
"Sometimes I'm Happy" (Lester Young Quartet)
Need I go on? I can.
jack
Chuck Nessa
Mitchell Kaufman
"Lester Leaps In" (original recording)
One of the four or five greatest solos I've ever heard, or ever hope to
hear.
MK
Ulf Åbjörnsson
and Dandy" from the Sound of Jazz TV programme.
Exactly the right notes - not too many, not too few - PERFECT!
That solo ought to be tought to every student of jazz improvisation on every
high school, college or university! Compulsary!
Ulf in Svedala
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Philip Fukuda
Also, I love Lster's solo (only half a chorus) on Teddy Wilson & Billie
Holiday's "I Must Have That Man."
Philip Fukuda
Ulf Åbjörnsson wrote in message <8cac9k$4k5$1...@zingo.tninet.se>...
Martin Milgrim
piece though. Pres is definitely on his last legs in that program and, as such,
the solo is more poignant to my ears than something I would seek to hear
often. To me, two of his many great solos are on the Signature recording of "I
Got Rhythm" and the Keynote recording of "I Never Knew" (from the same date that
produced the magnificent "Sometimes I'm Happy" cited by Jack Woker).
Martin
Ulf Åbjörnsson
Ulf
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> "Fine and Mellow?"
>
> Also, I love Lster's solo (only half a chorus) on Teddy Wilson & Billie
> Holiday's "I Must Have That Man."
>
> Philip Fukuda
>
>
> Ulf Åbjörnsson wrote in message <8cac9k$4k5$1...@zingo.tninet.se>...
DOUG NORWOOD
I agree with Martin, particularly with regard to "I Never Knew." Lester's
first "blowing" chorus on this is, to me, one of the truly magical moments
in jazz.
This was a very fruitful time for Lester. In a very brief period, he was
involved in two fine Keynote sessions, one for Commodore and the Dickie
Wells session for Signature - there may have been others that I have
overlooked. He was consistently at the top of his form on all these
sessions.
DougN
Martin Milgrim <mmil...@gate.net> wrote in message
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> I think you meant "Fine and Mellow", a blues. Interesting you should pick
that
> piece though. Pres is definitely on his last legs in that program and, as
such,
> the solo is more poignant to my ears than something I would seek to hear
> often. To me, two of his many great solos are on the Signature recording
of "I
> Got Rhythm" and the Keynote recording of "I Never Knew" (from the same
date that
> produced the magnificent "Sometimes I'm Happy" cited by Jack Woker).
>
> Martin
>
> "Ulf Åbjörnsson" wrote:
>
> > To me the greatest Lester Young solo is the one on Billie Holiday's
"Fine
> > and Dandy" from the Sound of Jazz TV programme.
> >
> > Exactly the right notes - not too many, not too few - PERFECT!
> >
> > That solo ought to be tought to every student of jazz improvisation on
every
> > high school, college or university! Compulsary!
> >
> > Ulf in Svedala
> >
pp00...@mindspring.com
titles from the 1936 Jones-Smith Date...
also don't forget the 1938 KC Six sessions and the June, 1938 dates
done for John Hammond that were included in the Spirituals To Swing
set - 2 new titles just showed up on the new Vanguard CD S to Swing
package...
and if I had to pick one date with Basie - how about Time Out/Clap
Hands, Here Comes Charlie/Swinging The Blues from the 1939 America
Dances b'cast? There are details in those solos that are unique.
then there are the extanded solos- Lester's European Blues/Lester
Leaps In from the ONYX Pres In Europe 1956 German nightclub session.
also, the slow 1937 Moten Swing from the Chatterbox Basie material
plus Without Your Love/Born To Love/You Can't Be Mine/This Year's
Kisses with Billie
the 1942 Nat Cole/Red Callender trio sides Indiana/Body and Soul/I
Can't Get Started/Tea For Two are also unlike anything else in his
discography
There are some solos from the 1940 Southland b'casts - especially 12th
Street Rag - that give an impression of the free-flowing Pres of the
jam sessions that so many of his contemporaries wrote about, when they
say he needed five choruses to warm up...
someone mentioned the 1943 Signature date where he plays the four
choruses on I Got Rhythm - listen closely to Rollins' solo on the
title track of The Bridge - I hear an echo ofwhat Lester does on the
bridges in Rollins' bridges at 1:02, at 1:25, and at 1:48 and then
again at , on top of the Every Tub quote that closes the solo.
I also love the 1957 Fine and Mellow solo, but would hope that it
would serve as an impetus for someone to delve in to the Lester who
was in full control of faculties, as well as the one who managed to
make something of genius out of some very severe physical limitations.
Loren Schoenberg
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:23:50 +0200, "Ulf Åbjörnsson"
<aabj...@algonet.se> wrote:
>Sure, Philip.Thanks for correcting!
>
>Ulf
>
>
>Philip Fukuda <pfu...@worldnet.att.net> skrev i
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>> "Fine and Mellow?"
>>
>> Also, I love Lster's solo (only half a chorus) on Teddy Wilson & Billie
>> Holiday's "I Must Have That Man."
>>
>> Philip Fukuda
>>
>>
>> Ulf Åbjörnsson wrote in message <8cac9k$4k5$1...@zingo.tninet.se>...
Lcfpsf
One I like very much from his Verve recordings is
"Back To The Land" with Nat "King" Cole on piano.
Peter F
evagrius
Poignant, yes.
That solo is perfect. It's a Sumi-e done with notes,big fat
brush strokes of notes, a big fat perfect MU, full of existence,
its joys and sadness.
In article <38E8DAE2...@gate.net>, Martin Milgrim
<mmil...@gate.net> wrote:
>I think you meant "Fine and Mellow", a blues. Interesting you
should pick that
>piece though. Pres is definitely on his last legs in that
program and, as such,
>the solo is more poignant to my ears than something I would
seek to hear
>often. To me, two of his many great solos are on the
Signature recording of "I
>Got Rhythm" and the Keynote recording of "I Never Knew" (from
the same date that
>produced the magnificent "Sometimes I'm Happy" cited by Jack
Woker).
>
>Martin
>
>"Ulf Åbjörnsson" wrote:
>
>> To me the greatest Lester Young solo is the one on Billie
Holiday's "Fine
>> and Dandy" from the Sound of Jazz TV programme.
>>
>> Exactly the right notes - not too many, not too few - PERFECT!
>>
>> That solo ought to be tought to every student of jazz
improvisation on every
>> high school, college or university! Compulsary!
>>
>> Ulf in Svedala
>>
>> Mitchell Kaufman <pref...@remain.spamless> skrev i
>> diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:1e8ie08.10r0e8q1j9fd5sN@user-
2iveb35.dialup.min
>> dspring.com...
>> > Chuck Nessa <cne...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > > "Taxi War Dance" makes ne get silly.
>> > >
>> > > Jack Woker wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > Are there more Lester Young solos in the same class as
>> > > > > Lady be good and When you're smiling?
>> > > >
>> > > > "Foolin' Myself" (Teddy Wilson & Billie Holiday)
>> > > > "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Basie)
>> > > > "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Lester Young Quartet)
>> > > >
>> > > > Need I go on? I can.
>> >
>> > "Lester Leaps In" (original recording)
>> >
>> > One of the four or five greatest solos I've ever heard, or
ever hope to
>> > hear.
>> >
>> > MK
>
>
>
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Tom Walls
favorite is on take 2(maybe it's actually take 3) of Billie Holliday's "All of
Me". Lester takes several choruses for an exhilerating solo.
--
Tom Walls
the guy at the Temple of Zeus
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/zeus/
LG
Jack Woker
Yes, probably more than once. The most commonly seen release is
entitled "Classic Tenors", on the Doctor Jazz label (distributed by
CBS), which combines Pres' Signature sides with those by Coleman
Hawkins. Overseas labels such as Blue Moon and Chronological Classics
may also have released them.
jack
Richard Claar
was blown-out/burnt-out, there are magical moments that only could have
been produced by Prez, be it a particular phrase or tone. I nominate
the mid-40's "Ghost of a Chance" on Savoy as one of the ultimatate
classics--Rips my heart out every time, but in a good sort of way, if
that makes any sense. RC
David Tenner
<8cffr2$d8t$2...@news01.cit.cornell.edu>:
>I mentioned this a couple months ago, but I guess it bears repeating.
>My favorite is on take 2(maybe it's actually take 3) of Billie
>Holliday's "All of Me". Lester takes several choruses for an
>exhilerating solo.
The 1970's LP "The Lester Young Story, Volume 5: Evening of a Basie-ite"
gives it as take three; the liner notes add that it was actually probably
the first take recorded but was too long for a 10 inch 78 "and so it
remained unreleased until now."
In addition to all the great solos other people have listed, a few I
haven't seen mentioned (but maybe I missed some posts):
Tickle Toe
Easy Does It
Cherokee
Dickie's Dream (from the same session that produced the original Lester
Leaps In)
The Man I Love (with Billie Holiday)
And finally let's not forget Lester as a clarinetist, above all in "I
Want a Little Girl."
--
David Tenner
dte...@ameritech.net
Jim Brown
Basie in 1938, where he stole the record from Hershel Evans with a
gorgeous clarinet solo, and the alternate take of "Mean to Me" with
Billie, which I first heard on the LP set Golden Years Vol 3.
Jim Brown
Chicago
