Lester Young With Count Basie And The Kansas City Seven - "Prez" Leaps Again

This Pickwick release features recordings that have all been released before on, amongst others, this release and the session information of those recordings applies to this Pickwick release on Soul Parade, and is as follows:

Lester Young Quartet

Lester Leaps Again
Sometimes I'm Happy
I Never Knew
Afternoon of a Basie-ite
Just You, Just Me

Lester Young (tenor saxophone)
Johnny Guarnieri (piano)
Slam Stewart (bass)
Sid Catlett (drums)

Recorded in New York City, December 28, 1943.

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Count Basie and his Kansas City Seven:

After Theatre Jump
Six Cats and a Prince
Destination K.C.

Lester Young (tenor saxophone)
Count Basie (piano)
Rodney Richardson (bass)
Jo Jones (drums)
Freddie Green (guitar)
Buck Clayton (trumpet)
Dicky Wells (trombone)

Recorded in New York City, March 22, 1944.

All titles have also been reissued on CD, titled The Complete Lester Young. This release is on the Mercury label and on the Soul Parade labels (see images) it also says "by arrangement with Mercury Record Prod., Inc.", clarifying the origin of the tracks on this Soul Parade/Pickwick release.

Track duration derived from the Soul Parade labels.