The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio Explained

The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio
Type:studio
Artist:Lester Young, Buddy Rich
Cover:TheLesterYoungBuddyRichTrio_Norgran.jpg
Released:1955
Recorded:March–April 1946, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
Genre:Jazz
Length:32:48
Label:Norgran
Producer:Norman Granz

The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio is a jazz trio album recorded in Hollywood, California in March and April of 1946 by Lester Young, Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich.

Release history

The first 4 tracks were originally released on Mercury Records as The Lester Young Trio.[1] The remaining 4 tracks were released on Norman Granz' Clef Records label as The Lester Young Trio No. 2[2] before all 8 tracks were combined and released by Granz' Norgran Records label as The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio.[3] 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", with 4 additional tracks recorded earlier by a quintet with Nat King Cole (but without Lester Young or Buddy Rich).

Track listing

LP Side A

  1. "Back to the Land" (Young) – 3:52
  2. "I've Found a New Baby" (Palmer, Williams) – 4:04
  3. "I Cover the Waterfront" (Green, Heyman) – 4:03
  4. "Somebody Loves Me" (MacDonald, DeSylva, Gershwin) – 3:54

LP Side B

  1. "I Want to Be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) – 3:56
  2. "The Man I Love" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:48
  3. "Mean to Me" (Ahlert, Turk) – 4:09
  4. "Peg O' My Heart"[4] (Bryan, Fisher) – 4:02

Personnel

References / notes

Notes and References

  1. The Lester Young Trio (1951) Mercury MGC 104, re-issued as Clef MGC 104
  2. The Lester Young Trio No. 2 (1953) Clef MGC 135
  3. The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio (1955) Norgran MGN 1074, re-issued as Verve MGV 8164
  4. Young / Cole duo - no drums