Jammin' with Lester [History]

Original Release Date:  June 10, 2003

Track Listing

• 1. Just You, Just Me
• 2. I Never Knew
• 3. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
• 4. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
• 5. Jump Lester Jump
• 6. Lester Blows Again
• 7. D.B. Blues
• 8. These Foolish Things
• 9. Jumpin' at Mesner's
• 10. Somebody Loves Me
• 11. I Want to Be Happy
• 12. Jammin' With Lester
• 13. After You've Gone
• 14. Lover, Come Back to Me
• 15. Lester Leaps In
• 16. She's Funny That Way
• 17. You're Driving Me Crazy
• 18. Lester's Be-Bop
• 19. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
• 20. Lester Smooths It Out
• 21. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
• 22. Shoe Shine Boy
• 23. I Want a Little Girl
• 24. Countless Blues
• 25. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
• 26. Pagin' the Devil
• 27. Them There Eyes
• 28. China Boy
• 29. What's Your Number?
• 30. Five O'Clock Whistle
• 31. Broadway
• 32. Afternoon of a Basie-Ite
• 33. Sometimes I'm Happy
• 34. Lester Leaps Again
• 35. Jo-Jo
• 36. Four O'Clock Drag
• 37. Three Little Words
• 38. Blue Lester
• 39. I Got Rhythm

Credits

• Johnny Otis: Drums
• George Gershwin: Composer
• Bing Crosby: Composer
• Joe Albany: Piano
• Count Basie: Piano
• Buck Clayton: Trumpet, Composer
• Bill Coleman: Trumpet
• Curtis Counce: Bass
• Harry "Sweets" Edison: Trumpet
• Freddie Green: Guitar
• Chico Hamilton: Drums
• Jo Jones: Drums
• Buddy Rich: Drums
• Tab Smith: Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
• Willie Smith: Sax (Alto)
• Slam Stewart: Trombone
• Buddy Tate: Sax (Tenor)
• Lester Young: Composer, Sax (Tenor)
• Irving Ashby: Guitar
• Joe Bushkin: Composer
• Lee Castle: Trumpet
• Johnny Guarnieri: Piano
• Don Redman: Arranger
• Vincent Youmans: Composer
• Howard McGhee: Trumpet
• Josef Myrow: Composer
• Walter Page: Bass
• Billy Bird: Composer
• Irving Caesar: Composer
• Red Callender: Bass
• Nat King Cole: Piano
• Buddy DeSylva: Composer
• Vic Dickenson: Trombone
• Eddie Durham: Guitar
• Kim Gannon: Composer
• Henry Green: Drums
• Roy Haynes: Drums
• Al Killian: Trumpet
• Dodo Marmarosa: Piano
• Shorty McConnell: Trumpet
• Ballard MacDonald: Composer
• Teddy McRae: Composer
• Dan Minor: Trombone
• Argonne Thornton: Piano
• Earle Warren: Sax (Alto)
• Jack Washington: Bass
• Ned Washington: Composer
• Dicky Wells: Trombone
• Shadow Wilson: Drums
• Victor Young: Composer
• Ted Briscoe: Bass
• Wesley Jones: Piano
• Glenn Hardman: Organ
• Henri Woode: Composer
• Ed Lewis: Truba
• Fred Lacey: Guitar
• Lyndell Marshall: Drums
• Maceo Pinkard: Composer
• Richard A. Whiting: Composer
• Neil Moret (Chas. N. Daniels): Composer
• Phil Boutelje: Composer
• James F. Hanley: Composer
• Doris Tauber: Composer
• William Tracey: Composer
• Dick Winfree: Composer
• Carl "Tatti" Smith: Trumpet
• Eddie Robinson: Bass
• Gene Irwin: Composer