The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve - Box Set 8CDs

Tracklist: 

CD 1:

1. Back To The Land

2. I Cover The Waterfront - 12" LP Take

3. I Cover The Waterfront - Master Take

4. Somebody Loves Me

5. I've Found A New Baby

6. The Man I Love

7. Peg O' My Heart

8. I Want To Be Happy

9. Mean To Me

10. Too Marvelous For Words - 78-RPM Take

11. Too Marvelous For Words - LP Take

12. 'Deed I Do

13. Encore

14. Polka Dots And Moonbeams

15. Up 'N' Adam

16. Three Little Words

17. Count Every Star - Master Take

18. Count Every Star

19. It All Depends On You

20. Neenah - Alternate Take

21. Neenah - Alternate Take

22. Neenah - Alternate Take

CD 2:

1. Jeepers Creepers

2. Thou Swell (USA 78Rpm take)

3. Thou Swell (Canada 78Rpm take)

4. September in the Rain

5. Undercover Girl Blues

6. Frenesi

7. Pete's Cafe

8. Little Pee Blues

9. A Foggy Day

10. In a Little Spanish Town

11. Let's Fall in Love

12. Down 'n' Adam

13. Lester Swings

14. Slow Motion Blues

15. Ad Lib Blues

16. Just You, Just Me

17. Tea for Two

18. (Back Home Again In) Indiana

19. These Foolish Things

20. I Can't Get Started

CD 3:

1. Star Dust

2. It Takes Two to Tango

3. On the Sunny Side of the Street

4. Almost Like Being in Love

5. I Can't Give You Anything but Love

6. There Will Never Be Another You

7. I'm Confessin'

8. Willow Weep for Me

9. This Can't Be Love

10. Can't We Be Friends?

11. Tenderly

12. New D.B. Blues

13. Jumpin' at the Woodside

14. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me

15. Oh, Lady, Be Good!

16. Another Mambo

17. Come Rain or Come Shine

18. Rose Room

19. Somebody Loves Me

20. Touch Me Again

21. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

CD 4:

1. I'm in the Mood for Love

2. Big Top Blues

3. Mean to Me

4. That's All (alternate take)

5. That's All (master take)

6. Red Boy Blues

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. She's Funny That Way (breakdown)

9. She's Funny That Way (master take)

10. One O'Clock Jump

11. It's the Talk of the Town

12. I've Found a New Baby

13. I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan

CD 5:

1. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

2. Gigantic Blues

3. This Year's Kisses

4. You Can Depend on Me

5. Pres Returns

6. Prisoner of Love

7. Taking a Chance on Love

8. All of Me

9. Louise

10. Love Is Here to Stay

11. Love Me or Leave Me

CD 6:

1. St. Tropez (alternate take)

2. St. Tropez (master take)

3. Flic

4. Ballad Medley: A Ghost of a Chance / I Cover the Waterfront

5. Love Is Here to Stay

6. Sunday (rejected version)

7. Perdido (incomplete take)

8. Waldorf Blues (alternate take)

9. Waldorf Blues (master take)

10. Sunday (master take)

11. You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me (alternate take)

CD 7:

1. You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me

2. Romping

3. Gypsy in My Soul

4. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

5. They Can't Take That Away From Me

6. Salute to Benny

7. Ballad Medley: The Very Thought of You / I Want a Little Girl

8. Mean to Me

9. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

10. Oh, Lady, Be Good!

11. Almost Like Being in Love

12. Three Little Words

13. I Cover the Waterfront

14. I Can't Get Started

CD 8:

1. (Back Home Again In) Indiana

2. Pennies From Heaven

3. New D.B. Blues

4. Lullaby of Birdland

5. There Will Never Be Another You

6. Tea for Two

7. [interview: Early Life / Birthplace / Music in New Orleans / Young's Father]

8. [interview: After New Orleans]

9. [interview: Pres's Instruments / Drums / Tenor Saxophone]

10. [interview: Count Basie]

11. [interview: Racial Tension]

12. [interview: Influences]

13. [interview: Composing and Reading Music / The Family Band / With Orchestra]

14. [interview: Recordings: Clarinet Dates]

15. [interview: Lady Day and Nobody's Business]

16. [interview: Philosophy on Music I]

17. [interview: Younger Saxophone]

18. [interview: Basie Then and Now]

19. [interview: Debunking]

20. [interview: Philosophy on Music II]

21. [interview: Pres's Sound: Sitting in With Fletcher Henderson]

22. [interview: Joining Henderson]

23. [interview: Early Pres: Oliver, Bronson, Basie]

24. [interview: Coleman Hawkins and Henderson]

25. [interview: Billie Holiday]

26. [interview: Recording Techniques]

27. [interview: Pres's Favorite Singers]

28. [interview: Philosophy on Music Vis-A-Vis Other Tenor Players]

29. [interview: Records New and Old]

30. [interview: Mahalia Jackson]