Something for Lester

Something for Lester
Studio album by Ray Brown
Released	1978
Recorded	June 22–24, 1977
Studio	Contemporary's Studio in Los Angeles, California
Genre	Jazz
Length	41:10
Label	Contemporary S 7640
Producer	John Koenig and Lester Koenig
Ray Brown chronology
As Good as It Gets (1977) Something for Lester (1978) Quadrant (1977)

Something for Lester is an album by American jazz bassist Ray Brown recorded in 1977 and released on the Contemporary label. ^[1]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars with Scott Yanow noting "This excellent trio session forms a sort of transition between bassist Ray Brown's work with the Oscar Peterson Trio and his own small-group sessions of the '80s and '90s". ^[2]

DownBeat fave the album 5 stars. ^[3] Zan Stewart called the release a "very tasteful and extremely listenable album". ^[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]
DownBeat

Track listing

1. "Ojos de Rojo" (Cedar Walton) - 5:16
2. "Slippery" - 7:27 (Ray Brown)
3. "Something in Common" (Walton) - 4:50
4. "Love Walked In" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:25
5. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) - 7:11
6. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 6:17
7. "Sister Sadie" (Horace Silver) - 4:54

Personnel

• Ray Brown - bass
• Cedar Walton - piano
• Elvin Jones - drums

References

1. Contemporary Records discography accessed February 2, 2012
2. Yanow, Scott. Something for Lester – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 1, 2016.
3. Stewart, Zan (November 17, 1979). "Record Reviews". DownBeat . 46 (17): 42.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 184. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.