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Lester Young · 1952 · Blues improvisé signé Oscar Peterson et Lester Young

Context

Blues credited to Oscar Peterson and Lester Young, recorded in New York on 28 November 1952 with Barney Kessel, Ray Brown and J. C. Heard. It opens the album released by Norgran in 1954.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Swing, big bands, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.

By the same artist

• I Can't Get Started (Lester Young) (1952)
• Just You, Just Me (1952)
• Almost Like Being in Love (1952)
• Tea for Two (Lester Young) (1952)
• These Foolish Things (Lester Young) (1952)
• Countless Blues (1938)

Sources

• EN: Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio

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