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| Something for Lester | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1978 | |||
| Recorded | June 22–24, 1977 | |||
| Studios | Contemporary's Studio in Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 41:10 | |||
| Labels | Contemporary S 7640 | |||
| Producers | John Koenig and Lester Koenig | |||
| Ray Brown chronology | ||||
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Something for Lester is an album by American jazz bassist Ray Brown recorded in 1977 and released on the Contemporary label.[1]
Reception
[edit]Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars with Scott Yanow noting "This excellent trio session forms a sort of transition between bassist Ray Brown's work with the Oscar Peterson Trio and his own small-group sessions of the '80s and '90s".[2]
DownBeat fave the album 5 stars.[3] Zan Stewart called the release a "very tasteful and extremely listenable album".[3]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
| DownBeat | |
Track listing
[edit]- "Ojos de Rojo" (Cedar Walton) - 5:16
- "Slippery" - 7:27 (Ray Brown)
- "Something in Common" (Walton) - 4:50
- "Love Walked In" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:25
- "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) - 7:11
- "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 6:17
- "Sister Sadie" (Horace Silver) - 4:54
Personnel
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Contemporary Records discography accessed February 2, 2012
- 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Something for Lester – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- 1 2 Stewart, Zan (November 17, 1979). "Record Reviews". DownBeat. 46 (17): 42.
- ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
