Lester Young Trio

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The Lester Young Trio

Studio album by Lester Young

Released 1951
Recorded MarchApril 1946, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
Genre Jazz
Label Mercury (Verve CD re-issue in 1994)
Producer Norman Granz
Lester Young chronology
Lester Swings The Lester Young Trio Carnegie Blues
(1945)
(1951)
(1955)
The Lester Young Trio No. 2

1953 Clef Records release

CD combination / re-issue cover

1994 Verve CD re-issue

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The Lester Young Trio and The Lester Young Trio No. 2 are jazz trio albums recorded in Hollywood,
California in MarchApril 1946 by Lester Young with Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich.

Contents
1 Release history
2 Track listing
2.1 The Lester Young Trio
2.2 The Lester Young Trio No. 2
2.3 Bonus tracks on Verve 1994 CD re-issue
3 Personnel
4 References / notes
5 Sources

Release history
The recordings were produced by Norman Granz and the first 4 tracks were released in 1951 on a
Mercury Records 10 inch LP, The Lester Young Trio.[2] Another 4 tracks were released in 1953 on
Norman Granz' Clef Records label as The Lester Young Trio No. 2.[3] All 8 trio tracks were combined
on a 12 inch Norgran LP, The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio[4] released in 1955. 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", together with 4 additional tracks recorded earlier
by a quintet with Nat King Cole (but without Lester Young or Buddy Rich).