| For Lady | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Webster Young |
| Cover: | For Lady.jpg |
| Released: | 1957 |
| Recorded: | June 14, 1957 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 42:09 |
| Label: | Prestige PR 7106 |
| Producer: | Bob Weinstock |
| Chronology: | Webster Young |
| Prev Title: | Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors |
| Prev Year: | 1957 |
| Next Title: | Webster Young Plays the Miles Davis Songbook |
| Next Year: | 1961 |
For Lady (subtitled songs Billie Holiday made famous... an instrumental tribute to her great talents) is an album by the American jazz cornetist Webster Young.[1] [2] It contains tracks recorded in 1957 for the Prestige label.[3] [4]
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars, with its review by Jim Todd stating: "While trumpeter Webster Young pays tribute to Billie Holiday on this, his only studio date as a leader, the set is equally a tribute to Young's musical role model, Miles Davis."[5] All About Jazz praised the album's "sleepy sadness," writing that "Young's approach to the trumpet was relaxed and steady ... bucking the trend toward the poker-hot heat beginning to be exhibited by Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard."[4]