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Going for Myself

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Released
  
1957

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

Release date
  
1957

Label
  
Lone Hill Jazz

Going for Myself imageseilcomlargeimageHARRYSWEETSEDISONGOI

Recorded
  
July 31, 1957, Hollywood, Los Angeles (February 7, 1958, New York City, reissue bonus tracks)

Length
  
42:59 original LP 75:50 CD reissue

Artists
  
Lester Young, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Similar
  
Lester Young albums, Jazz albums

Going For Myself is a 1957 jazz album by Harry "Sweets" Edison and Lester Young accompanied by Oscar Peterson. The album is one of Young's last studio recordings.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Flic" (Oscar Peterson, Lester Young) - 06:16
  2. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 05:53
  3. "St. Tropez" (Harry "Sweets" Edison, Peterson, Young) - 10:05
  4. "Waldorf Blues" (Young) - 08:19
  5. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) - 06:55
  6. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) - 07:43

Bonus tracks; Issued on the 2012 Lone Hill Jazz CD re-issue, LHJ10344

  1. (07) Ballad medley: "A Ghost of a Chance"/"I Cover the Waterfront" (Ned Washington, Ned Young, Bing Crosby)/(Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 5:51
  2. (08) "Perdido" (Juan Tizol, Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder) - 6:14
  3. (09) "St. Tropez" - 6:55 - Alternate take
  4. (10) "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" - 7:43 - Alternate take
  5. (11) "Waldorf Blues" 6:16 - Alternate take

Personnel

  • Lester Young - tenor saxophone, clarinet (03 & 09)
  • Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet

    • (July 31, 1957) (01-03, 07-09)

  • Oscar Peterson - piano
  • Herb Ellis - guitar
  • Ray Brown - double bass
  • Louie Bellson - drums

    • (February 07, 1958) (04-06, 10-11)

  • Lou Stein - piano
  • Herb Ellis - guitar
  • Ray Brown - double bass
  • Mickey Sheen - drums

    • Songs

    1Flic6:16
    2Love Is Here to Stay5:53
    3St Tropez10:06

    References

    Going for Myself Wikipedia
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