Lester Young, Buck Clayton & Eddie Durham ∽ Way Down Yonder In New Orleans ∽ 1938

[TopsyDurham]

Lester Young is NOT on the four 1938 recordings - which JOHN HAMMOND ingeniously produced to showcase the original Band "Eddie Durham and His Base Four", featuring the first electric guitar recordings and electric guitar as a lead Band instrument, intentionally excluding Count Basie/piano. Milt Gabler purchased the four recordings in 1944, added Lester and repackaged into something marketable.

[KaRidder234]

@TopsyDurham -- First of all a Happy, Healthy & Successful New Year 2012.

How come that there is clearly Lester Young audible on all the 10 takes from September 27, 1938? There was not yet such a technique as "overdubbing" then.

There are four other tracks from March 18, 1938, indeed without Lester Young: Laughing At Life, Good Mornin' Blues, I Know That You Know, and Love Me Or Leave Me.

Personnel: Buck Clayton, Eddie Durham, Freddie Green, Walter Page & Jo Jones.

[Soulnik]

Superb. 

[KaRidder234]

@Soulnik -- Thanks a bunch, soulnik. I'm glad you like it.