The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio

Release history

The first 4 tracks were originally released on Mercury Records as The Lester Young Trio. The remaining 4 tracks were released on Norman Granz' Clef Records label as The Lester Young Trio No. 2 before all 8 tracks were combined and released by Granz' Norgran Records label as The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio. 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

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

LP side B

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

Personnel