The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio

The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio
The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio
Studio album by Lester Young, Buddy Rich
Released	1955
Recorded	March–April 1946, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
Genre	Jazz
Length	32:48
Label	Norgran
Producer	Norman Granz
Lester Young chronology
Buddy Rich chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	(1994 reissue) ^[2]

The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio is a jazz trio album recorded in Hollywood, California in March and April of 1946 by Lester Young, Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich.

Release history

The first 4 tracks were originally released on Mercury Records as The Lester Young Trio.^[3] The remaining 4 tracks were released on Norman Granz' Clef Records label as The Lester Young Trio No. 2^[4] before all 8 tracks were combined and released by Granz' Norgran Records label as The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio.^[5] Nat King Cole was under contract with a different record label at the time so was credited only as "Aye Guy" on the original Mercury / Clef / Norgran releases.

In 1994 Verve Records released a CD version of The Lester Young Trio which combined all 8 tracks from the 1946 Hollywood trio recordings, plus an alternate take of "I Cover the Waterfront" and an additional shortened version of "Back to the Land", with 4 additional tracks recorded earlier by a quintet with Nat King Cole (but without Lester Young or Buddy Rich).

Track listing

LP Side A

"Back to the Land" (Young) – 3:52
"I've Found a New Baby" (Palmer, Williams) – 4:04
"I Cover the Waterfront" (Green, Heyman) – 4:03
"Somebody Loves Me" (MacDonald, DeSylva, Gershwin) – 3:54

LP Side B

"I Want to Be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) – 3:56
"The Man I Love" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:48
"Mean to Me" (Ahlert, Turk) – 4:09
"Peg O' My Heart"^[6] (Bryan, Fisher) – 4:02

Personnel

Lester Young – tenor saxophone
Buddy Rich – drums
Nat King Cole (credited as "Aye Guy" on the original releases) – piano

References / notes

^ Allmusic review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1536. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ The Lester Young Trio (1951) Mercury MGC 104, re-issued as Clef MGC 104
^ The Lester Young Trio No. 2 (1953) Clef MGC 135
^ The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio (1955) Norgran MGN 1074, re-issued as Verve MGV 8164
^ Young / Cole duo - no drums