LESTER YOUNG – Lester Leaps In

“Lester Leaps In” is a jazz standard originally recorded by Count Basie’s Kansas City Seven in 1939.[1] The composition, credited to the group’s tenor saxophone player Lester Young, is a contrafact based on the chord progression of “I Got Rhythm”, and serves as a vehicle for interweaving solos by Young and Basie. Featuring musicians Count Basie, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, Freddie Green, Walter Page & Jo Jones.

• A1 Saxy Blues
• A2 I Cover The Waterfront
• A3 These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You
• A4 Lester Leaps In
• B1 Younger Than The Sax Time
• B2 The Prophet
• B3 Lovers Leap
• B4 Leap Frog