Summary
The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio is a jazz trio album recorded in Hollywood, California in March–April 1946 by Lester Young, Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich.
| The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1955 | |||
| Recorded | March–April 1946, Radio Recorders, Hollywood | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 32:48 | |||
| Label | Norgran | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
| Lester Young chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Buddy Rich chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | (1994 reissue)  [2] |
Release history edit
The first 4 tracks were originally released on Mercury Records as The Lester Young Trio.[3] The remaining 4 tracks were released on Norman Granz' Clef Records label as The Lester Young Trio No. 2[4] before all 8 tracks were combined and released by Granz' Norgran Records label as The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio.[5] Nat King Cole was under contract with a different record label at the time so was credited only as "Aye Guy" on the original Mercury / Clef / Norgran releases.
In 1994 Verve Records released a CD version of The Lester Young Trio which combined all 8 tracks from the 1946 Hollywood trio recordings, plus an alternate take of "I Cover the Waterfront" and an additional shortened version of "Back to the Land", with 4 additional tracks recorded earlier by a quintet with Nat King Cole (but without Lester Young or Buddy Rich).
Track listing edit
LP side A
- "Back to the Land" (Young) – 3:52
- "I've Found a New Baby" (Palmer, Williams) – 4:04
- "I Cover the Waterfront" (Green, Heyman) – 4:03
- "Somebody Loves Me" (MacDonald, DeSylva, Gershwin) – 3:54
LP side B
- "I Want to Be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) – 3:56
- "The Man I Love" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:48
- "Mean to Me" (Ahlert, Turk) – 4:09
- "Peg O' My Heart"[6] (Bryan, Fisher) – 4:02
Personnel edit
- Lester Young – tenor saxophone
- Buddy Rich – drums
- Nat King Cole (credited as "Aye Guy" on the original releases) – piano
References / notes edit
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1536. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ The Lester Young Trio (1951) Mercury MGC 104, re-issued as Clef MGC 104
- ^ The Lester Young Trio No. 2 (1953) Clef MGC 135
- ^ The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio (1955) Norgran MGN 1074, re-issued as Verve MGV 8164
- ^ Young / Cole duo - no drums
- The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio at jazzdisco.org