📀 Product Description

Artist/Title: Lester Young / Teddy Wilson Quartet – Pres and Teddy (1956, Verve Records; CD Reissue, Complete Recordings)

Condition:

• Case: VG+ (minor wear, intact)

• Disc: Like New (clean surface, excellent playback)

Details:

• Label: Verve Records

• Catalog #: Often reissued under Verve’s “Complete Recordings” series (CR)

• Release Date: Originally recorded January 13, 1956; CD reissue date varies (commonly 1990s–2000s)

• Format: CD Album

• Genre: Jazz, Swing, Mainstream Jazz

Track Highlights:

• All of Me

• Prisoner of Love

• Louise

• Love Me or Leave Me

• Our Love Is Here to Stay

• Pres Returns

• Tenderly

• They Can’t Take That Away from Me

Media Reviews:

• AllMusic: Praised the session as “a relaxed, swinging reunion of two jazz giants.”

• DownBeat: Noted Young’s “lyrical tenor sax” paired with Wilson’s “elegant piano touch.”

• Penguin Guide to Jazz: Called it “a warm, essential late‑career document of Lester Young.”

Collector Notes:

• Recorded in New York with Lester Young (tenor sax), Teddy Wilson (piano), Gene Ramey (bass), and Jo Jones (drums).

• One of Young’s last great studio sessions, treasured for its intimacy and swing.

• CD reissues under Verve’s “Complete Recordings” branding are valued by collectors for sound quality and packaging.

Buyer Notes:

• Ships in a bubble mailer

• Case graded VG+, disc graded Like New