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