Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie & Lester Young Studio Session - Box Set 8CDs

Tracklist: 

CD 1

1. Shoe Shine Boy

2. Evenin'

3. Boogie Woogie

4. Lady, Be Good

5. I've Found A New Baby

6. Ti-Pi-Tin

7. Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can't Bomb Me)

8. Beautiful Eyes

9. There'll Be Some Changes Made

10. It's Sad But True

11. I Got Rhythm

12. I'm Fer It Too

13. Hello Babe

14. Linger Awhile

15. Shoe Shine By (Alt Tk -2)

16. Evenin' (Alt Tk -2)

17. Boogie Woogie (Alt Tk -2)

18. Lady, Be Good (Alt Tk -2)

19. I've Found A New Baby (Alt Tk -3)

20. I'm Fer It Too (Alt Tk -2)

21. Hello Babe (Alt Tk -1)

Personnel (on 1-4,15-18) : Jones-Smith Incorporated

Count Basie (p), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Carl 'Tatti' Smith (tp), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : Chicago, Nov 9, 1936

Personnel (on 5,19) : Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra

Teddy Wilson (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Buck Clayton (tp), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : NYC, Jun 1, 1937

Personnel (on 6) : Benny Goodman And His Orchestra

Jess Stacy (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Lionel Hampton (dr), Harry James, Ziggy Elman, Chris Griffin (tp), Vernon Brown, Red Ballard (tb), Hymie Schertzer, Dave Matthews (as), Babe Russin, Lester Young (ts), Benny Goodman (cl,ldr)

Location & Date : NYC, Mar 9, 1938

Personnel (on 7-10) : Una Mae Carlisle with Orchestra

Clyde Hart (p), John Collins (gt), Nick Fenton (b), Doc West (dr), Shad Collins (tp), Lester Young (ts), Una Mae Carlisle (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Mar 10, 1941

Personnel (on 11-14,20-21) : Dickie Wells And Orchestra

Elis Larkins (p), Freddie Green (gt), Al Hall (b), Jo Jones (dr), Bill Coleman (tp), Dicky Wells, Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : NYC, Dec 21, 1943

CD 2

1. Honeysuckle Rose

2. Pennies From Heaven

3. Swinging At The Daisy Chain

4. Roseland Shuffle

5. Exactly Like You

6. Boo-Hoo

7. The Glory Of Love

8. Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)

9. Smarty, You Know It All

10. One O'Clock Jump

11. Listen My Children And You Shall Hear

12. John's Idea

13. Good Morning Blues

14. Our Love Was Meant To Be

15. Time Out

16. Topsy

17. I Keep Remembering (Someone I Should Forget)

18. Out The Window

19. Don't You Miss Your Baby?

20. Let Me Dream

21. Georgianna

22. Blues In The Dark

23. Honeysuckle Rose (Alt Tk -B)

24. Good Morning Blues (Alt Tk -B)

Personnel (on 1-4,23) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Claude Williams (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Joe Keyes, Buck Clayton, Carl 'Tatti' Smith (tp), George Hunt, Dan Minor (tb), Caughey Roberts (as), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Jan 21, 1937

Personnel (on 5-8) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Bobby Moore (tp), George Hunt, Dan Minor (tb), Caughey Roberts (as,cl), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Mar 26, 1937

Personnel (on 9-12) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Bobby Moore (tp), George Hunt, Dan Minor (tb), Earl Warren (as,bs), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Jul 7, 1937

Personnel (on 13-16,24) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Bobby Moore (tp), George Hunt, Dan Minor (tb), Eddie Durham (tb,gt), Earl Warren (as), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Aug 9, 1937

Personnel (on 17-20) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Bobby Moore (tp), Bennie Morton, Dan Minor (tb), Eddie Durham (tb,gt), Earl Warren (as), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Oct 13, 1937

Personnel (on 21-22) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Karl George (tp), Bennie Morton, Dan Minor (tb), Eddie Durham (tb,gt), Earl Warren (as), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Jan 3, 1938

CD 3

1. Sent For You Yesterday And Here You Come Today

2. Every Tub

3. Now Will You Be Good

4. Swinging The Blues

5. Mama Don't Want No Peas An' Rice An' Cocoanut Oil

6. Blue And Sentimental

7. Doggin' Around

8. Stop Beatin' 'Round The Mulberry Bush

9. London Bridge Is Falling Down

10. Texas Shuffle

11. Jumpin' At The Woodside

12. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans

13. Countless Blues

14. Them There Eyes

15. I Want A Little Girl

16. Pagin' The Devil

17. Stop Beatin' 'Round The Mulberry Bush (Alt Tk -B)

18. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (Alt Tk -1 aka version #2)

19. Countless Blues (Alt Tk -2 aka version #2)

20. Them There Eyes (Alt Tk -2 aka version #2)

21. I Want A Little Girl (Alt Tk -2 aka version #2)

22. Pagin' The Devil (Alt Tk -2 aka version #2)

Personnel (on 1-4) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison (tp), Bennie Morton, Dan Minor (tb), Eddie Durham (tb,gt), Earl Warren (as,bs), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (as,bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Feb 16, 1938

Personnel (on 5-7) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison (tp), Bennie Morton, Dan Minor (tb), Eddie Durham (tb,gt), Earl Warren (as), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Jun 6, 1938

Personnel (on 8-11,17) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison (tp), Dicky Wells, Benny Morton, Dan Minor (tb), Earl Warren (as), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Aug 22, 1938

Personnel (on 12-16,18-22) : Kansas City Six

Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Buck Clayton (tp), Eddie Durham (tb,gt), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : Brunswick Studio, NYC, Sep 27, 1938

CD 4

1. How Long How Long Blues

2. The Dirty Dozens

3. Hey Lawdy Mama

4. The Fives

5. Boogie Woogie

6. Dark Rapture

7. Shorty George

8. The Blues I Like To Hear

9. Do You Wanna Jump, Children?

10. Panassie Stomp

11. My Heart Belongs To Daddy

12. Sing For Your Supper

13. Oh! Red

14. Fare Thee Honey Fare Thee Well

15. Dupree Blues

16. When The Sun Goes Down

17. Red Wagon

18. You Can Depend On Me

19. Cherokee Pt. 1

20. Cherokee Pt. 2

21. Blame It On My Last Affair

22. Fare Thee Honey Fare Thee Well (Alt Tk -B)

23. When The Sun Goes Down (Alt Tk -A)

24. Blame It On My Last Affair (Alt Tk-B)

Personnel (on 1-5) : Count Basie At The Piano

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr)

Location & Date : NYC, Nov 9, 1938

Personnel (on 6-10) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Shad Collins (tp), Dicky Wells, Benny Morton, Dan Minor (tb), Earl Warren (as), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Helen Humes, Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Nov 16, 1938

Personnel (on 11-12) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Shad Collins (tp), Dicky Wells, Benny Morton, Dan Minor (tb), Earl Warren (as), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Helen Humes (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Jan 5, 1939

Personnel (on 13-17,22-23) : Count Basie At The Piano

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr)

Location & Date : NYC, Jan 26, 1939

Personnel (on 18) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Shad Collins (tp), Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs)

Location & Date : NYC, Feb 2, 1939

Personnel (on 19-21,24) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Shad Collins (tp), Dicky Wells, Benny Morton, Dan Minor (tb), Earl Warren (as), Chu Berry, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Helen Humes (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Feb 3, 1939

CD 5

1. Jive At Five

2. Thursday

3. Evil Blues

4. Oh Lady Be Good

5. The Goon Drag (Gone Wid De Goon)

6. Things 'Bout Coming My Way

7. Just Jivin' Around

8. Indiana

9. I Can't Get Started

10. Tea For Two

11. Body And Soul

12. Just You, Just Me (1, lp)

13. Just You, Just Me (2, single)

14. I Never Knew (1, lp)

15. I Never Knew (2, single)

16. Afternoon of a Basie-ite (1, lp)

17. Afternoon of a Basie-ite (2, single)

18. Sometimes I'm Happy (1, lp)

19. Sometimes I'm Happy (2, single)

Personnel (on 1) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Shad Collins (tp), Dicky Wells (tb), Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs)

Personnel (on 3-4) : Count Basie And His Orchestra

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Shad Collins (tp), Dicky Wells, Benny Morton (tb), Dan Minor (tp), Earl Warren (as), Chu Berry, Lester Young (ts), Jack Washington (bs), Helen Humes, Jimmy Rushing (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Feb 4, 1939

Personnel (on 5-7) : Sam Price And His Texas Bluesicians

Sammy Price (p), Duke Jones (b), Doc West (dr), William Johnson, Shad Collins (tp), Doc Stovall (as), Lester Young (ts), Yac Taylor (vo)

Location & Date : NYC, Apr 3, 1941

Personnel (on 8-11) : Lester Young Trio

Nat King Cole (p), Red Callender (b), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : Wallich's Music City, Hollywood, Jul 15, 1942

Personnel (on ) : Lester Young Quartet

Johnny Guarnieri (p), Slam Stewart (b), Sid Cattlet (dr), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : NYC, Dec 28, 1943

CD 6

1. After Theatre Jump

2. Six Cats And A Prince

3. Lester Leaps Again

4. Destination K.C.

5. Three Little Words

6. Jojo

7. I Got Rhythm

8. Four O'Clock Drag

9. After Theatre Jump (alt. take)

10. Six Cats And A Prince (-1) (alt. take)

11. Six Cats And A Prince (-2)

12. Destination K.C. (alt. take)

13. Three Little Words (#2) (alt. take)

14. Three Little Words (#3) (alt. take - 1)

15. Three Little Words (#4) (alt. take - 2)

16. Jojo (#2) (alt. take - 3)

17. Jojo (#3) (alt. take - 2)

18. Jojo (#4) (-4)

19. I Got Rhythm (#3) (alt. take)

20. I Got Rhythm (#2) (alt. take - 2)

21. Four O'Clock Drag (alt. take)

Personnel (on 1-4,9-12) : Kansas City Seven

Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Jo Jones (dr), Buck Clayton (tp), Dicky Wells (tb), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : NYC, Mar 22, 1944

Personnel (on 5-8,13-21) : Kansas City Six with Lester Young

Joe Buskin (p), John Simmons (b), Jo Jones (dr), Bill Coleman, Dicky Wells (tb), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : NYC, Mar 28, 1944

CD 7

1. D.B. Blues

2. Lester Blows Again

3. These Foolish Things

4. Jumpin' at Mesners'

5. He Don't Love Me Anymore

6. Pleasing Man Blues

7. Riffin' Without Helen

8. It's Only a Paper Moon

9. After You've Gone

10. Lover Come Back to Me

11. Jammin' With Lester

12. Back to the Land

13. I Cover the Waterfront

14. Somebody Loves Me

15. I've Found a New Baby

16. The Man I Love

17. Peg O' My Heart

18. I Want To Be Happy

19. Mean To Me

20. I Cover the Waterfront (Alt Tk)

Personnel (on 1-4) : Lester Young And His Band

Dodo Marmorosa (p), Red Callender (b), Henry Tucker Green (dr), Vic Dickenson (tb), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : LA, Dec, 1945

Personnel (on 5-7) : Helen Humes Her All Stars

Jimmy Bunn (p), Dave Barbour (e-gt), Jimmy Rud (b), Henry Tucker Green (dr), Snooky Young, Willie Smith (as), Maxwell Davis, Lester Young (ts), Helen Humes (vo)

Location & Date : LA, Dec 22, 1945

Personnel (on 8-11) : Lester Young And His Band

Wesley Jones (p), Curtis Counce (b), Johnny Otis (dr), Howard McGhee, Vic Dickenson (tb), Willie Smith (as), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : LA, Jan, 1946

Personnel (on 12-20) : Lester Young Trio

Nat King Cole (p), Buddy Rich (dr), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : LA, Mar-Apr, 1946

CD 8

1. You're Driving Me Crazy

2. New Lester Leaps In

3. Lester's Be-Bop Boogie

4. She's Funny That Way

5. Sunday

6. S.M. Blues

7. Jumping with Symphony Sid

8. No Eyes Blues

9. Sax-O-Be-Bop

10. On the Sunny Side of the Street

11. Easy Does It

12. Movin' with Lester

13. One O'Clock Jump

14. Jumpin' at the Woodside

15. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)

16. Lester Smooths It Out

17. Just Cooling

18. Tea for Two

19. East of the Sun - West of the Moon

20. Sheik of Araby

21. Something to Remember You By

22. Easy Does It (alt. take)

Personnel (on 1-4) : Lester Young And His Band

Joe Albany (p), Irving Ashby (e-gt), Red Callender (b), Chico Hamilton (dr), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : LA, Aug, 1946

Personnel (on 5-10) : Lester Young And His Sextet

Sadik Hakim (p), Fred Lacy (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Lyndell Marshall (dr), Shorty McConnell (tp), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : Chicago, Oct, 1946

Personnel (on 11-14,22) : Lester Young And His Sextet

Sadik Hakim (p), Fred Lacy (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Lyndell Marshall (dr), Shorty McConnell (tp on 12,13), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : Radio Recorders, LA, Feb 18, 1947

Personnel (on 15-17) : Lester Young And His Sextet

Sadik Hakim (p), Fred Lacy (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Lyndell Marshall (dr), Shorty McConnell (tp on 16,17), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : NYC, Apr 2, 1947

Personnel (on 18-21) : Lester Young And His Quartet

Gene DiNovi (p), Chuck Wayne (e-gt), Curly Russell (b), Tiny Kahn (dr), Lester Young (ts)

Location & Date : WOR Studios, NYC, Dec 29, 1947