Lester Young
And The Kansas City 6 (LP)
LabelCommodoreGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Insert included. No obi.
1938, and one of the most perfect small-group sessions ever recorded. Milt Gabler took a handful of Basie men into a studio - Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Eddie Durham, Freddie Green, Walter Page, Jo Jones - and simply let them play. Young is at the absolute height of his powers here, that light, floating, behind-the-beat tenor sound that made every subsequent saxophonist rethink what the instrument was for, and on several tracks he plays clarinet, which he almost never recorded and which is unbearably beautiful. Nothing is hurried. Everything swings.
Commodore pressing. One of the handful of genuinely perfect records in the whole of jazz.
Release notes
Side 1: Recorded at Brunswick Recording Corp, 1776 Broadway N.Y.C., September 27, 1938 Side 2: Recorded at WOR Recording Studios, 1440 Broadway N.Y.C., March 28, 1944 (* means alternate take)
| A1 | *Way Down Yonder In New Orleans | ||
| A2 | Way Down Yonder In New Orleans | ||
| A3 | Countless Blues | ||
| A4 | *Countless Blues | ||
| A5 | *Them There Eyes | ||
| A6 | Them There Eyes | ||
| A7 | I Want A Little Girl | ||
| A8 | *I Want A Little Girl | ||
| A9 | Pagin The Devil | ||
| A10 | *Pagin The Devil | ||
| B1 | *Three Little Words | ||
| B2 | Three Little Words | ||
| B3 | Jo-Jo | ||
| B4 | *Jo-Jo | ||
| B5 | I Got Rhythm | ||
| B6 | *I Got Rhythm | ||
| B7 | Four O'Clock Drag | ||
| B8 | *Four O'Clock Drag |
- John Simmons
- Bass (B1 to B8)
- Walter Page
- Bass (A1 to A10)
- Lester Young
- Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone
- Jo Jones
- Drums
- Eddie Durham
- Electric Guitar, Trombone (A1 to A10)
- Freddie Green
- Guitar (A1 to A10), Vocals (A5-A6)
- Joe Bushkin
- Piano (B1 to B8)
- Milt Gabler
- Producer
- Akira Yamato
- Supervised By
- Dickie Wells
- Trombone (B1 to B8)
- Bill Coleman
- Trumpet (B1 to B8)
- Buck Clayton
- Trumpet (A1 to A10)
