Artist	Song
Count Basie	Lester Leaps In
from The Count Basie Story (2004)
Buck Clayton, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Herschel Evans & Lester Young	One O'Clock Jump
from Count Basie's Finest Hour (2002)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	Stardust
from Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1997)
Buck Clayton, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Eddie Durham, Jimmy Rushing & Lester Young	Blues In the Dark
from Black Legends of Jazz (1994)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	Almost Like Being In Love
from Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1997)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	On the Sunny Side of the Street
from Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1997)
Billie Holiday	Fine and Mellow
from Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music (2000)
Lester Young & Kansas City Five	Good Morning Blues
from The "Kansas City" Sessions (1997)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	There Will Never Be Another You
from Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1997)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Honeysuckle Rose
from The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) (1992)
Billie Holiday, Buck Clayton & Lester Young	Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
from The Very Best Of (2009)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young	When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
from A Musical Romance (2002)
The Lester Young & Teddy Wilson Quartet	Our Love is Here to Stay
from Pres & Teddy (1991)
Lester Young	D. B. Blues
from The Best of Lester Young (2006)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	It Takes Two to Tango
from Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1997)
Lester Young	Jammin' With Lester
from Bebop Volume 3 (2001)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson Trio	I Can't Get Started
from Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1997)
Lester Young & The Kansas City Six	Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
from The "Kansas City" Sessions (1997)
Lester Young Quintet	Lester's Bebop
from Bebop Volume 3 (2001)
Lester Young	Polka Dots and Moonbeams
from Verve Jazz Masters 30: Lester Young (1994)
Lester Young & The Kansas City Six	I Want a Little Girl
from The "Kansas City" Sessions (1997)
Lester Young	Blue Lester
from Blue Lester - The One and Only Lester Young (2005)
Lester Young & The Kansas City Six	Pagin' the Devil
from The "Kansas City" Sessions (1997)
Lester Young	On the Sunny Side of the Street
from Los Angeles to New York 1944-1946 (2001)
Lester Young & The Kansas City Six	Three Little Words
from The "Kansas City" Sessions (1997)
Buddy Rich, Lester Young & Nat "King" Cole	I Cover the Waterfront
from The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions On Verve (1999)
Buddy Rich, Lester Young & Nat "King" Cole	The Man I Love
from Ultimate Lester Young (1998)
Buddy Rich, Lester Young & Nat "King" Cole	Mean to Me (1946 Version)
from Verve Jazz Masters 30: Lester Young (1994)
Buddy Rich, Lester Young & Nat "King" Cole	I've Found a New Baby
from The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions On Verve (1999)
Lester Young	Body and Soul
from The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young (1995)
Lester Young & The Kansas City Seven	Lester Leaps Again
from Ultimate Lester Young (1998)
Lester Young	New D. B. Blues
from The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions On Verve (1999)
Lester Young	Oh, Lady Be Good
from 100 Years - Forever Young (2010)
Lester Young	Tea for Two
from Centennial Celebration: Lester Young (2009)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young	I'll Never Be the Same
from A Musical Romance (2002)
Lester Young & The Kansas City Six	I Got Rhythm
from The "Kansas City" Sessions (1997)
Lester Young	Lullaby Of Birdland/Up And At'em
from 100 Years - Forever Young (2010)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Every Tub
from Ken Burns Jazz: Lester Young (2000)
Lester Young, Sid Catlett & Slam Stewart	Just You, Just Me
from Verve Jazz Masters 30: Lester Young (1994)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young	Me, Myself and I
from A Musical Romance (2002)
Lester Young	How High The Moon
from 100 Years - Forever Young (2010)
Lester Young	Ghost of a Chance
from Blue Lester - The One and Only Lester Young (2005)
Lester Young	These Foolish Things
from The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young (1995)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young	The Man I Love
from A Musical Romance (2002)
Lester Young	Come Rain or Come Shine
from Lester Young: Standards (Great Songs/Great Performances) (2010)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	Pennies from Heaven (1955 Version)
from Ultimate Lester Young (1998)
The Lester Young Quartet	Sometimes I'm Happy
from Ken Burns Jazz: Lester Young (2000)
Lester Young	Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
from The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young (1995)
Lester Young	This Year's Kisses
from Ken Burns Jazz: Lester Young (2000)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	Ad Lib Blues
from Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1997)
Lester Young	Bugle Call Rag
from Jazz At The Phil - The Complete Jazz At the Philharmonic On Verve (1944-1949) (1998)
The Lester Young & Teddy Wilson Quartet	Love Me or Leave Me
from Pres & Teddy (1991)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young	I Must Have That Man
from A Musical Romance (2002)
Lester Young & Charlie Christian	Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
from Jazz Masters: Lester Young & Charlie Christian (2005)
Lester Young	Tickle Toe
from Sequences One (2010)
Lester Young & Nat "King" Cole	Peg O' My Heart
from The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions On Verve (1999)
Lester Young	Tush
from Blue Lester - The One and Only Lester Young (2005)
Lester Young	Up 'N' Adam
from The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions On Verve (1999)
Lester Young	Jump, Lester, Jump
from Blue Lester - The One and Only Lester Young (2005)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young	Who Wants Love?
from A Musical Romance (2002)
Lester Young	A Foggy Day
from Lester Young In Washington, D.C. 1956, Vol. 1 (2006)
Lester Young	Midnight Symphony
from Los Angeles to New York 1944-1946 (2001)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
from Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1997)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young	He's Funny That Way
from A Musical Romance (2002)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	It's the Talk of the Town
from A Jazz Romance - A Night In With Verve (2001)
Count Basie & Lester Young	Taxi War Dance
from The Essential Count Basie, Vol. I (1987)
Lester Young	These Foolish Things
from Pres In Europe (2009)
Lester Young	Lester Swings
from Lester Swings (1999)
The Lester Young & Teddy Wilson Quartet	Pres Returns
from Pres & Teddy (1991)
Lester Young	Shoe Shine Boy
from Classic Years of Lester Young (2007)
Lester Young	Indiana
from The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young (1995)
Lester Young	Gypsy in My Soul
from Laughin' to Keep from Cryin' (2000)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young	A Sailboat In the Moonlight
from A Musical Romance (2002)
Lester Young	They Can't Take that Away from Me
from Laughin' to Keep from Cryin' (2000)

Comment:

Name a major development in jazz in the first half of the 20th century — odds are Lester Young was in on the ground floor. Even as a young man in the '30s, playing with Count Basie, he was at the heart of big-band swing and the Kansas City scene, but the sophisticated sounds he laid down when he stepped out front were a key influence on both bebop and cool jazz. Fact is, the unassailably hip saxman has even been credited with popularizing the term cool itself! Whether he was burning down the house with a hard-charging blues or pulling bittersweet sobs from his saxophone on a melancholy ballad, swapping solos with Oscar Peterson or slipping into a soul-searching mood behind Billie Holiday, Prez was always the epitome of cool. As proof, we'd like to enter into evidence 75 slabs of swing-soaked sax sorcery by this unparalleled jazz giant.

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