Lester Young – Lester Leaps In (2018) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Lester Young – Lester Leaps In (2018)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 43:20 minutes | 1,71 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:20 minutes | 870 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital booklet | © 2xHD

One of the great originals in the jazz hierarchy, Lester Young was without doubt the most influential tenor saxophonist after Coleman Hawkins. A highly sensitive, graceful player, and an enigmatic personality, Young had a winning sense of time and space and a most engaging gift for improvising on songs rather than chord sequences. He played with great feeling for the lyric of a song with a very special, bittersweet brand of melancholy. There are some jazz exponents whose recorded work is worth preservation and close attention. Lester is one such jazz exponent. 2xHD are proud to bring present this historic recording to the digital high resolution world.

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Lester Young – All That Jazz, Vol. 73 – Lester Young “Exercises in Swing” (Remastered 2016) (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Lester Young – All That Jazz, Vol. 73 – Lester Young “Exercises in Swing” (Remastered 2016) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:26 minutes | 381 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jube Legends

Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed “Pres” or “Prez”, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.

Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie’s orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his instrument. In contrast to many of his hard-driving peers, Young played with a relaxed, cool tone and used sophisticated harmonies, using what one critic called “a free-floating style, wheeling and diving like a gull, banking with low, funky riffs that pleased dancers and listeners alike”.

Known for his hip, introverted style, he invented or popularized much of the hipster jargon which came to be associated with the music.

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Lester Young – Lester Leaps In (Remastered) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Lester Young – Lester Leaps In (Remastered) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:20 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD – Storyville Records

The great Lester Young, nicknamed “Prez” by Billie Holiday, truly began his rise as one of the legends of jazz with the Count Basie Orchestra in Kansas City. This compilation of his great recordings gets its name from a jazz head written by Basie himself to celebrate and highlight Young’s skills as a saxophone player (the opening track of the record).

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Lester Young – Pres (1974/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lester Young – Pres (1974/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:05 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Charlie Parker Records

Lester Young was unique, just as original and fascinating a musician as he was a human being. He introduced a new way of playing which led to the modern jazz. He was the inspiration for Charlie Parker and countless musicians on all instruments who grew up becoming jazz musicians during the fourties and fifties. The cool jazz of the 1950’s was directly based on Young’s light and relaxed style.

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Lester Young – The President Plays with The Oscar Peterson Trio (1954/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Lester Young – The President Plays with The Oscar Peterson Trio (1954/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:37 minutes | 266 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1954 studio album by Lester Young, accompanied by Oscar Peterson’s working trio of the time (featuring Ray Brown and Barney Kessel), plus drummer J. C. Heard. The music on this album was originally released as three separate albums: Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #1 and Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #2, both released in June 1954 (MGN 5 & 6), and The President (August 1954, MGN 1005). It was collated for this 1997 reissue by Verve Records.

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Lester Young – Jumpin’ at the Savoy Ballroom (Remastered) (1984/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lester Young – Jumpin’ at the Savoy Ballroom (Remastered) (1984/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:02:00 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audio Fidelity

Saxophone legend Lester Young, nicknamed “Prez”, came to prominence as a member of Count Basie’s orchestra, then becoming one of the most influential saxophonists of our time. In contrast to many of his hard-driving peers, Young played with a relaxed, cool tone and used sophisticated harmonies. On Jumpin’ at the Savoy Ballroom, Young performs some of his favourite standards from the American Song Book. Audio Fidelity presents this legacy recording in stunning modern clarity with its remastering and digital transfer process.

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Lester Young – Blue Lester (1956) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lester Young – Blue Lester (1956)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:31 minutes | 361 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archive of Folk & Jazz Music

Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed “Pres” or “Prez”, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.

Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie’s orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his instrument. In contrast to many of his hard-driving peers, Young played with a relaxed, cool tone and used sophisticated harmonies, using what one critic called “a free-floating style, wheeling and diving like a gull, banking with low, funky riffs that pleased dancers and listeners alike”.

Known for his hip, introverted style, he invented or popularized much of the hipster jargon which came to be associated with the music.

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Lester Young – Supreme Jazz (2006) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Lester Young – Supreme Jazz (2006)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 70:39 mins | Scans included | 3,91 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,21 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound | Label: Membran Music Ltd.

A tenor sax legend, known as Pres, whose melodic, smooth-flowing lines made him the most influential and inventive player of the pre-bop era. Lester Young was one of the true jazz giants, a tenor saxophonist who came up with a completely different conception in which to play his horn, floating over bar lines with a light tone rather than adopting Coleman Hawkins’ then-dominant forceful approach. A non-conformist, Young (nicknamed “Pres” by Billie Holiday) had the ironic experience in the 1950s of hearing many young tenors try to sound exactly like him.

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Charlie Parker, Lester Young – An Historical Meeting at the Summit (1950/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Charlie Parker, Lester Young – An Historical Meeting at the Summit (1950/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:39 minutes | 545 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Charlie Parker Records

Charlie Parker Records presents An Historical Meeting at the Summit, the classic 1950 duo recording of Bird and Lester “Prez” Young, that brings together 8 originals and standards. This legacy recording has been lovingly transferred from its original analogue sources to high-fidelity digital formats for modern listening!

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