b. Lester Willis Young, 27th August, 1909, Woodville, Mississippi, U.S.A.
d. 15th March, 1959, New York, New York State, U.S.A.
Albums:
Young Lester Young (Columbia 1936)
Lester Young (Time-Life 1936)
Tenor Sax: Lester Young, Chu Berry & Ben... (Atlantic 1938)
Prez's Hat, Vol. 1 (Philology 1939)
The Immortal (Savoy 1944)
Master Takes (Savoy 1944)
Prez's Hat, Vol. 2 (Philology 1944)
Prez's Hat, Vol. 3 (Philology 1944)
Prez's Hat, Vol. 4 (Philology 1944)
Kansas City Style (Commodore 1944)
Jammin' with Lester (Jazz Archives 1944)
The Aladdin Sessions (Blue Note 1945)
Lester Swings (Verve 1945)
Lester Young-Buddy Rich Trio (Verve 1946)
Lester Young-Nat King Cole Trio (Score 1946)
Carnegie Blues (Verve 1946)
Lester Leaps Again ([Le Jazz] Le Jazz 1948)
Live at the Royal Roost 1948 [Musidisc] (Jazz Anthology 1948)
Pres Lives! (Savoy 1950)
The Pres ([Savoy] Savoy 1950)
Swings Again (Verve 1950)
Pres Is Blue (Charlie Parker 1950)
Lester Young Quartet and Count Basie Seven (Mercury 1950)
Pres ([Verve] Verve 1951)
Lester Young ([Savoy] Savoy 1951)
Lester Young Collates (Mercury 1951)
The Lester Young Trio ([Mercury] Mercury 1951)
Live at Birdland (Bandstand 1951)
Pres and Teddy and Oscar (Verve 1952)
Pres and His Cabinet (Verve 1952)
With the Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve 1952)
Collates No. 2 (Mercury 1953)
Battle of the Saxes (Aladdin 1953)
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio,... (Norgran 1954)
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio,... (Norgran 1954)
Mean to Me (Verve 1954)
Lester Young: His Tenor Sax (Aladdin 1954)
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio,... (Norgran 1954)
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio,... (Norgran 1954)
The President (Norgran 1954)
Pres Meets Vice-Pres (EmArcy 1955)
Pres and Sweets (Verve 1955)
The Jazz Giants '56 (Verve 1956)
Pres and Teddy (Verve 1956)
Prez in Europe Onyx 1956)
Lester Young in Washington, D.C., 1956, Vol.... (Pablo/OJC 1956)
Lester Young in Washington, D.C., 1956, Vol.... (Pablo/OJC 1956)
Lester Young in Washington, D.C., 1956, Vol.... (Pablo/OJC 1956)
Lester Young in Washington, D.C., 1956, Vol.... ([live] Pablo 1956)
Lester Young in Washington, D.C., 1956, Vol.... ([live] Pablo 1956)
Lester's Here (Norgran 1956)
Nat King Cole-Buddy Rich Trio (1956)
Lester Swings Again (Norgran 1956)
Lester Young and His Tenor Sax, Vol. 2 (Aladdin 1956)
Tops on Tenor (Jazztone 1956)
Blue Lester (Savoy Jazz 1956)
The Master's Touch ([Savoy] Savoy 1956)
If It Ain't Got That Swing (1957)
Laughin' to Keep from Cryin' (Verve 1958)
Giants of Jazz ([American Recording Society] American 1958)
Lester Young in Paris (Verve 1959)
The Lester Young: Teddy Wilson Quartet (Verve 1959)
Going for Myself (Verve 1960)
'Pres' (Charlie Parker 1961)
Lester Young and the Kansas City Five (Commodore 1962)
Just You, Just Me (Charlie Parker 1963)
The Influence of Five (Mainstream 1965)
Town Hall Concert [live] (Mainstream 1965)
Chairman of the Board (Mainstream 1965)
52nd Street (Mainstream 1965)
Prez (Mainstream 1965)
Giants 3 (Verve 1966)
Coleman Hawkins & Lester Young (Zim 1975)
Lester Young, Vol. 1 [AJ] (AJ 1976)
Evening of a Basie-Ite (Columbia 1980)
Giants of Jazz ([Time Life] Time-Life 1981)
Jazz at the Philharmonic (Hartford 1953) [live] (Pablo 1985)
The Master's Touch [Savoy] (Savoy Jazz 1993)
Live at Birdland, Vol. 2 (Bandstand 1994)
I Got Rhythm (Four Star 1995)
Lady Be Good (Jazztory 1996)
Lester Young in Washington, Vol. 5 [live] (Original Jazz 1998)
Live at the Royal Roost 1948 ([Unique Jazz] Unique Jazz 2001)
