[bcsco]

Listening to his “Almost Like Being In Love” as I write this. Mercy!

[BluesDuke]

I was listening to him have a blow with "Lester Leaps In," a live performance when Count Basie reunited Young and other members of his pre-1950s band for a set at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. I'm also hoping Verve will reissue Lester Swings, an album they put out in the 1980s that featured, mostly, a series of sides Young cut with Nat (King) Cole on piano and Buddy Rich on drums. It almost didn't matter what size group he worked with. Lester Young would have been Lester Young even if he'd had a quintet of bamboo marimba players to work with. .