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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.9 / 5.0

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You have every right to be suspicious of a four-CD set this cheap, but this is great stuff. The selection of songs and the recording quality are both top-notch. I don't know how they do it, but don't pass this up on the idea that anything this cheap can't be good.

Almost all of early Prez is here, and what a package!:

Proper is a newer label out of the U.K. that focuses on boxed-set compilations of some great American music - and not just jazz. This Lester Young compilation is amazing, especially for the price. Mostly all of Prez' classic early stuff is included - with Basie, Holiday - but what floored me was the inclusion of some of the 1943-44 (immediately before Lester had to go into the war) material with the small Basie groups including Slam Stewart, Sid Catlett, Buck Clayton, Freddie Green, and the "Kansas City... more info

The Amadeus of Jazz.:

No-one could have invented Lester Young. He just emerged with perfect, unique sense of both phrasing and timing. (His father BTW was a tough teacher -- who also taught Ben Webster). Lester Young was badly misunderstood in his early band days -- notably by the wife of Fletcher Henderson who berated him harshly for his easy, smooth tone and his way of laying out just behind the beat. The style of the day was the heavy stampeding sound of Coleman Hawkins. It was a revolution in the making and Mrs Henderson... more info

Tracks:

1. Shoe Shine Boy
2. Oh Lady Be Good
3. This Year's Kisses
4. Easy Living
5. Me Myself And I
6. A Sailboat In The Moon Light
7. One O'Clock Jump
8. When You're Smiling
9. Every Tub
10. Swinging The Blues
11. Doggin' Around
12. Jumpin' At The Woodside
13. I Can't Get Started
14. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
15. Countless Blues
16. I Want A Little Girl

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