Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio

1954 compilation album by Lester Young

Compilation album by

Lester Young

Released

June 1954 (MGN 5-6)^[1]
August 1954 (MGN 1005)^[2]

Recorded

November 28, 1952
New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

63:37

Label

Norgran Records
MGN 5/6/1054
Verve (reissue)

Producer

Norman Granz

Lester Young chronology

Pres and Teddy and Oscar
(1952)

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio
(1954)

Pres and Sweets
(1955)

Oscar Peterson chronology

Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter
(1953)

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio
(1954)

Lionel Hampton Plays Love Songs
(1954)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1954 studio album by Lester Young, accompanied by Oscar Peterson's working trio of the time (featuring Ray Brown and Barney Kessel), plus drummer J. C. Heard. The music on this album was originally released as three separate albums: Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #1 and Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #2, both released in June 1954 (MGN 5 & 6), and The President (August 1954, MGN 1005). It was collated for this 1997 reissue by Verve Records.^[5]

Track listing

"Ad Lib Blues" (Oscar Peterson, Lester Young) – 5:54
"I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 3:41
"Just You, Just Me" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) – 7:40
"Almost Like Being in Love" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:34
"Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 7:45
"There Will Never Be Another You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:28
"(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 7:04
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:27
"Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 3:35
"(I'm) Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Doc Daugherty, Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds) – 3:41
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Fields, McHugh) – 3:22
"These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:27
"(It Takes) Two to Tango": Rehearsal, False Start and Chatter (Al Hoffman, Dick Manning) – 6:06 Bonus track on CD reissue
"I Can't Get Started" – 0:53 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

Performance

Lester Young – tenor saxophone, vocals on Two to Tango
Oscar Peterson – piano
Barney Kessel – guitar
Ray Brown – double bass
J. C. Heard - drums

Production

Nat Hentoff - liner notes
Norman Granz - producer

References

^ Billboard June 19, 1954
^ Billboard May 5, 1956
^ Allmusic review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1536. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio at AllMusic

Lester Young

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

Studio albums

The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio (1946)
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1952)
Pres and Sweets (1955)
The Jazz Giants '56 (1956)
Pres and Teddy (1956)
Going for Myself (1957)
Laughin' to Keep from Cryin' (1958)

Oscar Peterson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Note: All-Star albums feature sideman who are not necessarily listed while titles which include "Oscar Peterson" or the OP Trio are usually shortened.

As
leader
or
co-leader

Plays series	Duke Ellington (1952) George Gershwin (1952) Harold Arlen (1954) Count Basie (1955)
1955–58	In a Romantic Mood (with Russ Garcia, 1955) At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956) At the Concertgebouw (1957) Soft Sands (with Buddy Bregman, 1957) Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957) My Fair Lady (1958) On the Town (1958) A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra (1959) The Jazz Soul (1959) Swinging Brass (with Russ Garcia, 1959) Fiorello! (1960)
Plays the Songbook (1959)	Cole Porter Duke Ellington George Gershwin Harold Arlen Jerome Kern Richard Rodgers Porgy & Bess
The London House Sessions (1961)	Put On a Happy Face Something Warm The Sound of the Trio The Trio (Verve)
Trio & Guests	Very Tall (with Milt Jackson, 1961) Affinity (1962) Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band! (1962) Night Train (1962) West Side Story (1962) And Nelson Riddle (1963) Canadiana Suite (1964) Plays (1964) + One (with Clark Terry, 1964) We Get Requests (1964) Eloquence (1965) I/We Had a Ball (multiple groups, 1965) With Respect to Nat (1965) Blues Etude (1966) Soul Español (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple groups, 1967)
Exclusively for My Friends	Action (1963–64) Girl Talk (1965–68) The Way I Really Play (1967) The Lost Tapes (1967–68) Mellow Mood (1968) My Favorite Instrument (1968) Travelin' On (1968)
1969–79	Hello Herbie (1969) Motions and Emotions (with Claus Ogerman, 1969) Another Day (1970) Tracks (1970) Tristeza on Piano (1970) Walking the Line (1970) Great Connection (1971) In Tune (and The Singers Unlimited, 1971) Reunion Blues (and Milt Jackson, 1971) In Tokyo (1972) Solo (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 1 (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 2 (1972) The trio (Pablo, 1973) In Russia (1974) The Giants (1974) The Good Life (1974) Oscar Peterson et Joe Pass à Salle Pleyel (1975) Porgy and Bess (and Joe Pass, 1975) The Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux (1975) The Tenor Giants (and Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) And the Bassists – Montreux '77 (and Ray Brown & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1977) Jam – Montreux '77 (1977) The London Concert (1978) The Paris Concert (1978) Digital at Montreux (1979) Night Child (1979) Skol (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1979)
With The Trumpet Kings	Roy Eldridge (1974) Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Jousts (1974) Harry Edison (1974) Clark Terry (1975) Jon Faddis (1975) At Montreux '75 (Eldridge, Gillespie & Terry, 1975) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980) The Alternate Blues (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980)
1980–2004	Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Personal Touch (1980) A Royal Wedding Suite (1981) Nigerian Marketplace (1981) Face to Face (with Freddie Hubbard, 1982) Freedom Song (1982) A Tribute to My Friends (1983) If You Could See Me Now (1983) Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (multiple groups, 1983) Two of the Few (with Milt Jackson, 1983) Live! (1986) Time After Time (1986) Live at the Blue Note (1990) Saturday Night at the Blue Note (1991) Last Call at the Blue Note (1992) Encore at the Blue Note (1993) Side by Side (with Itzhak Perlman, 1994) The More I See You (1995) An Oscar Peterson Christmas (1995) A Tribute to Oscar Peterson – Live at the Town Hall (1996) Oscar in Paris (1996) Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (1996) Oscar and Benny (with Benny Green, 1998) Summer Night in Munich (1998) Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite (2000) A Night in Vienna (2004)