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Billie Holiday & Lester Young: All of Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

If hot jazz was defined by Louis Armstrong in the 1920s, then the lyrical side of jazz found its perfect exponents in...

Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...

Eddie Heywood (featuring Billie Holiday): All of Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

On what was their final Columbia session together, Young was given only two brief solos on the sides selected for rel...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Count Basie: Taxi War Dance (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

Perhaps his finest moment on record, Young is probably also (mostly) responsible for “Taxi War Dance’s” very simple h...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

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