100 Years: Forever Young

by Lester Young

Overview

Featuring nine radio broadcasts from the 1950s when Lester Young was arguably at his peak, most of the 31 tracks on this two-disc set were originally broadcast from Zurich, and one track from 1956, "Oh! Lady Be Good," finds a young Miles Davis on trumpet.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/14/2010
Label:	Storyville / Storyville Records
UPC:	0717101841424
Rank:	143973

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Indiana
2. A Ghost of a Chance
3. How High the Moon
4. D.B. Blues
5. Lullaby of Birdland/Up and At'em
6. Too Marvellous for Words
7. Lullaby of Birdland
8. Just You, Just Me
9. It's Only a Papermoon
10. Speak
11. I Cover the Waterfront
12. Up and At'em
13. Three Little Words
14. I Cover the Waterfront
15. D.B. Blues

Disc 2

16. Lester's Mop Mop Blues
17. Tea for Two
18. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
19. Three Little Words
20. Lester Leaps In
21. Oh, Lady Be Good
22. Oh, Lady Be Good
23. Lester's Mop Mop Blues
24. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid
25. Lullaby of Birdland
26. Lester Leaps In
27. These Foolish Things
28. Three Little Words
29. Pennies from Heaven
30. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
31. Indiana

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lester Young   Primary Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Miles Davis   Trumpet
Franklin Skeets   Bass
Bill Triglia   Piano
Gildo Mahones   Piano
Gene Ramey   Bass
Gus Johnson   Drums
Christian Garros   Drums
Connie Henry   Bass
Bill Pots   Piano
Sinclair Raney   Piano
Jim Lutch   Drums
Idrees Sulieman   Trumpet
Connie Kay   Drums
Earl Swope   Trombone
Jo Jones   Drums
Horace Silver   Piano
Pierre Michelot   Bass
Jesse Drakes   Trumpet,Sax (Alto)
Norman Williams   Bass
Rene Urtreger   Piano

Technical Credits

Nancy Hamilton   Composer
Raymond Klages   Composer
Morgan Lewis   Composer
Arthur Johnston   Composer
James F. Hanley   Composer
George Shearing   Composer
Vincent Youmans   Composer
Harry Ruby   Composer
Bert Kalmar   Composer
Anders Stefansen   Producer
Edward Heyman   Composer
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg   Composer
Victor Young   Composer
Frank Buechmann Moller   Liner Notes
Harold Arlen   Composer
Jack Strachey   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Lester Young   Composer
Jesse Greer   Composer
Richard A. Whiting   Composer