The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio

The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio is a jazz trio album recorded in Hollywood, California in March and April of 1946 by Lester Young, Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich.

Release history
The first 4 tracks were originally released on Mercury Records as The Lester Young Trio. The remaining 4 tracks were released on Norman Granz' Clef Records label as The Lester Young Trio No. 2 before all 8 tracks were combined and released by Granz' Norgran Records label as The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio. Nat King Cole was under contract with a different record label at the time so was credited only as "Aye Guy" on the original Mercury / Clef / Norgran releases.

In 1994 Verve Records released a CD version of The Lester Young Trio which combined all 8 tracks from the 1946 Hollywood trio recordings, plus an alternate take of "I Cover the Waterfront" and an additional shortened version of "Back to the Land", with 4 additional tracks recorded earlier by a quintet with Nat King Cole (but without Lester Young or Buddy Rich).

Track listing
LP Side A LP Side B
 * 1) "Back to the Land" (Young) – 3:52
 * 2) "I've Found a New Baby" (Palmer, Williams) – 4:04
 * 3) "I Cover the Waterfront" (Green, Heyman) – 4:03
 * 4) "Somebody Loves Me" (MacDonald, DeSylva, Gershwin) – 3:54
 * 1) "I Want to Be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) – 3:56
 * 2) "The Man I Love" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:48
 * 3) "Mean to Me" (Ahlert, Turk) – 4:09
 * 4) "Peg O' My Heart" (Bryan, Fisher) – 4:02

Personnel

 * Lester Young – tenor saxophone
 * Buddy Rich – drums
 * Nat King Cole (credited as "Aye Guy" on the original releases) – piano

References / notes

 * The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio at jazzdisco.org