Lester Young with Oscar Peterson Trio
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Performer: Lester YoungPerformer: Oscar Peterson Trio
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-06-24
Music Label: Verve
Product features:
- YOUNG LESTER WITH THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO
- Ad Lib Blues
- I Can't Get Started
- Just You, Just Me
- Almost Like Being in Love
- Tea for Two
- There Will Never Be Another You
- (Back Home Ahain in) Indiana
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Star Dust
- I'm Confessin'
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love
- These Foolish Things
- (It Takes) Two To Tango
- I Can't Get Started
Music reviews of Lester Young with Oscar Peterson Trio
Music Review: Music I will never forget
Rating: 5 Stars
I first heard "Ad Lib Blues" on a 10-inch LP in 1958 in a dingy record store listening booth in the north of England. I immediately knew this was my music. It has remained among my most treasured discs ever since. It is timeless. Unlike what passes as jazz today, where being able to fast-finger through changes -- with weird 'de rigeur' harmonies conveying little or nothing musically -- Lester Young tells a story, easing you into each next idea, building logically from phrase to phrase until you know him, his mood, the story behind the song, and much about his life. He is reported to have said: "If you don't know the words of the song, you can't really play it!!"
Moreover, his sense of timing -- unlike anyone before him -- that lagged just behind the beat, gives his jazz a unique cool manner in complete contrast with the coarser, charging Coleman Hawkins, still the swing tenor hero of the day. Without Lester Young, cool jazz and bebop of the mid-1940s would have launched differently and probably later.
Oscar Peterson, who plays throughout these discs, is an ideal Lester Young accompanist. He is good anywhere, but listen to "Almost Like Being In Love". Its a short ballad in which Lester Young plays the theme and then opens out into a some beautifully improvised choruses. Before closng Peterson plays a few bars of the release that are shere perfection. His phrasing is so simple, so beautifully logical, so unhurried and so right for the story that Lester Young is building.
Ray Brown, one of the greatest bass players in all of jazz, is fine as always but plays mostly in accompaniment. Barney Kessel is good too but is not really up to the level of the masters he backs. Sad to say, the tension in the music drops a notch when he solos. The main disappointment, for me, is the merely adequate JC Heard on drums. He followa the leaders but adds little in dynamics and support to them that a more quicksilver drummer like Jo Jones would have done. Jones was playing at his best in this era.
But don't worry about these tiny negatives. These discs are among the all time classics of jazz.
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