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Lester Young

Artist Song
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson  Ad Lib Blues  
Lester Young  Bugle Call Rag  
The Lester Young & Teddy Wilson Quartet  Love Me or Leave Me  
Billie Holiday & Lester Young  I Must Have That Man  
Lester Young & Charlie Christian  Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie  
Lester Young  Tickle Toe  
Lester Young & Nat "King" Cole  Peg O' My Heart  
Lester Young  Tush  
Lester Young  Up 'N' Adam  
Lester Young  Jump, Lester, Jump  
Billie Holiday & Lester Young  Who Wants Love?  
Lester Young  A Foggy Day  
Lester Young  Midnight Symphony  
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson  I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)  
Billie Holiday & Lester Young  He's Funny That Way  
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson  It's the Talk of the Town  
Count Basie & Lester Young  Taxi War Dance  
Lester Young  These Foolish Things  
Lester Young  Lester Swings  
The Lester Young & Teddy Wilson Quartet  Pres Returns  
Lester Young  Shoe Shine Boy  
Lester Young  Indiana  
Lester Young  Gypsy in My Soul  
Billie Holiday & Lester Young  A Sailboat In the Moonlight  
Lester Young  They Can't Take that Away from Me  

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Whether it was on account of his highly developed harmonic hipness, or simply his penchant for slipping riffs in between the cracks of the ivories, Lester Young always had a special rapport with piano players. Swapping licks with Oscar Peterson, Prez wrings every ounce of sadness from the sorrowful standard "It's the Talk of the Town." With Teddy Wilson working some uptown magic alongside his own steady-swingin' Midwestern moan, Young blew new life into the Broadway-born '20s tune "Love Me or Leave Me." And his frequent piano-tickling partner Nat "King" Cole prods Prez to squeeze out some of the sweetest, most melodious tones ever to emerge from a saxophone when the two pals tackle the old pop tune "Peg O' My Heart."
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