Four Classic Albums (Count Basie Kansas City Seven & Lester Young Quartet / Blue Lester / The Jazz Giants 56 / Count Basie At Newport)

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AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD second release from Lester Young, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. Having released a fine set by Lester Young (AMSC1307) over two years ago, we thought it was high time to re-visit the great man's catalogue. This time we have included not only a couple of classic Count Basie titles which heavily feature 'Pres' at his absolute prime, but also the formidable classic 'The Jazz Giants'. 'Count Basie Kansas City Seven & Lester Young Quartet'; 'Blue Lester'; 'The Jazz Giants '56' and 'Count Basie At Newport'' There is not much to say about Lester Young that has not been said before, he was certainly one of the most influential jazz musicians who ever lived and he really did exemplify the image of the cool jazz musician with his heavy eye lidded appearance, his famed pork pie hat and the ever present, fag smoke wafting into view. His playing was cool and mellow and brilliant and we have chosen to highlight it in our four albums where he can be heard in collaboration with other great musicians including Count Basie, Buck Clayton, Freddie Greene, Jo Jones, Junior Mance, Roy Haynes, Shadow Wilson, Roy Eldridge, Vic Dickenson, Teddy Wilson, Illinois Jacquet, Frank Wess, Thad Jones & Jimmy Rushing. Check out::- Lester Young (AMSC1307); Count Basie (AMSC1160); Ben Webster (AMSC1038 & 1354); John Coltrane (AMSC1230); Stan Getz (AMSC1234); Dexter Gordon (AMSC1199); Teddy Edwards (AMSC1179); Jimmy Forrest (AMSC1096); Benny Golson (AMSC1310); Johnny Griffin (AMSC1266); Clifford Jordan (AMSC1330); Harold Land (AMSC1332).