Artist: Lester Young
Album: The Complete Savoy Recordings
Genre: Cool, Swing
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2002
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- These Foolish Things Remind Me of You (take 1 master) (2:59)
- Exercise in Swing (take 1 master) (3:03)
- Exercise in Swing (take 2) (2:50)
- Exercise in Swing (take 3) (3:11)
- Exercise in Swing (take 4) (3:01)
- Salute to Fats (take 1) (3:23)
- Salute to Fats (take 2) (1:18)
- Salute to Fats (take 3) (3:00)
- Salute to Fats (take 4) (1:00)
- Salute to Fats (take 5 master) (3:00)
- Basie English (take 1) (3:01)
- Basie English (take 2 master) (3:03)
- Empty Hearted (take 1 master) (2:57)
- Circus in Rhythm (take 1 master) (3:14)
- Circus in Rhythm (take 2) (3:07)
- Circus in Rhythm (take 3) (2:57)
- Poor Little Plaything (take 1 master) (2:58)
- Poor Little Plaything (take 2) (3:03)
- Tush (take 1) (2:53)
- Tush (take 2 master) (3:00)
- Blue Lester (Lester's Blues) (take 1 master) (3:24)
- Ghost of a Chance (take 1) (3:28)
- Ghost of a Chance (take 2 master) (3:21)
- Indiana (take 1) (2:54)
- Indiana (take 2 master) (2:56)
- Jump, Lester, Jump (Lester's Savoy Jump) (take 1 master) (3:16)
- CD 2:
- Crazy over J-Z (take 1) (2:46)
- Crazy over J-Z (take 2) (2:48)
- Crazy over J-Z (take 3 master) (2:43)
- Ding Dong (take 1) (2:26)
- Ding Dong (take 2) (2:26)
- Ding Dong (take 3 master) (2:26)
- Blues 'n' Bells (take 1) (2:11)
- Blues 'n' Bells (take 2) (2:23)
- Blues 'n' Bells (take 3 master) (2:23)
- June Bug (take 1 master) (2:37)
- Neenah (3:10)
- Body and Soul (3:42)
- Up and Adam (4:13)
- Big Eye Blues (9:26)
- One O'Clock Blues (6:19)
- Lester's Mop Mop Blues (4:55)
- Pennies from Heaven (5:32)
- I Can't Get Started (4:15)
- How High the Moon (7:02)
- Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (3:59)
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2002's The Complete Savoy Recordings contains all 46 recordings Lester Young recorded for Savoy, including numerous alternate takes. This set is nicely assembled, boasting 20-Bit remastering, with good notes and logical sequencing (even if the successions of alternate takes do skew it a bit toward the historian, not the casual listener), making this the best set to date of Young's pivotal Savoy recordings.
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine