Lester Young - The Complete 1936-1951 Small Group Sessions Vol.6 - Rare Items (2005)

01 - I've Found a new Baby
02 - Mortgage Stomp
03 - Don't Be That Way
04 - Blues With Helen
05 - Song of the Wanderer
06 - Allez Oop
07 - Ad-Lib Blues
08 - I Never Knew
09 - Charlie's Dream
10 - Lester's Dream					play
11 - Wholly Cats
12 - Blitzkrieg Baby
13 - Beautiful Eyes
14 - There'll Be Some Changes Made
15 - It's Sad But True				play	
16 - The Goon Drag
17 - Things 'Bout Coming My Way
18 - Lead me Daddy Straight to the Bar
19 - Just Jivin' Around
20 - Please Let me Forget
21 - (I Love Him Though) He Don't Love me Any More
22 - Pleasin' Man Blues (Stop Jivin' Around)
23 - See See Rider
24 - It's Better to Give Than to Receive

Lester Young with:
Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton, Buster Bailey, Freddie Green, Walter Page, Jo Jones, Count Basie, Helen Humes, Benny Goodman,
 Charlie Christian, Shad Collins, Clyde Hart, John Collins, Nick Fenton, Harold West, Una Mae Carlisle, Bill Johnson, Don Stovall,
 Sammy Price, Duke Jones, Yack Taylor, Snooky Young, Willie Smith, Maxwell Davis, Jimmy Bunn, Dave Barbour, Jimmy Rudd, Henry Tucker Green.

This additional volume brings together some atypical sessions within the Young discography. Atypical as much for the context in which they were recorded as for the jazz musicians who took part in them, in spite of the fact that the first three sessions have as common denominator the incomparable Count Basie rhythm section, including the Count himself in two of them. The title recorded by Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra corresponds to a session where Billie Holiday was the featured singer, but in this particular number she doesn't appear.

The session made under the name Members of Basie Band (with Helen Humes) is a test pressing that in its day was not released. In a typical jam session atmosphere one can hear Lester using his metallic clarinet for the first time and experimenting new sounds on his tenor sax. The five tracks by the Benny Goodman Octet were recorded at a rehearsal session, for at that time Goodman was thinking of forming a small group which could fully exploit the enormous musical talent of Charlie Christian.

Here the guitarist shows his indisputable brilliance as soloist in the same league as Lester, with whom he felt at ease, not just through the ties of friendship, but via a solid stylistic affinity: the same cool, unemphatic and laid-back approach. The last three sessions feature three singers, each of a very different stripe: the singer and pianist Una Mae Carlisle, a Fats Waller disciple; the pianist and singer Sammy Price; and Helen Humes. The latter was at a splendid moment in her career; Lester is limited to merely participate in the line-up except for a tenor solo of surprising power in "Pleasin' Man Blues"

This volume of rare items completes all of the Lester Young small group studio recordings made up until 1951. ---J. G. Calvados, Editorial Reviews

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