condition (record/cover): NM / VG (light ring wear and 2" paper damage on top front)
Promotional copy with promo-sticker on front. Gatefold sleeve.
The Columbia holdings, which means the Basie band and the Billie Holiday sessions, which means the most famous thing Lester Young ever did. The Holiday recordings are one of the great partnerships in the music: two people with an almost identical sense of how far behind the beat you could place a phrase, circling each other with a tenderness that no amount of repetition has worn out. He named her Lady Day, she named him Pres, and neither of them ever sounded quite the same with anyone else. "Lester Leaps In" gives the volume its title and remains the definitive Basie small-group side.
Columbia pressing, fourth volume of the series. The core of the legend.
