Red Label: Hommage to Lester Young & the Basie-Ites

by Lester's Blues

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Jose Tello A crisp take on old, scratchy Basie classics. Can't say I'm in love with the vocals, but instrumental tracks are killer.

Lots of good stuff to DJ from here. Favorite track: The Goon Drag.

Matt Lloyd Fantastic album! Was hoping to get the vinyl, but the shipping to Canada was more then the actual record. Favorite track: The Goon Drag.

Arnas Razgūnas When in doubt - Count Basie. Everything about this album is legend. Favorite track: One O'Clock Jump.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Comes in a four-page cardboard digipack with lovely retro-artwork, group photo by Grégoire Verbeke inside. Additional booklet with pics and band info included.

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100% ANALOG. Recorded straight to tape, mastered and lacquer cut in a pure analog signal path, no computers.
Extensive liner notes by Tom Callens & group photo by Grégoire Verbeke.

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Comes with the original vinyl artwork with liner notes and a little booklet (EN, FR or NL) presenting the band and the album.

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1.	King Porter Stomp 02:38	buy track
2.	One O'Clock Jump 03:32	buy track
3.	Easy Living 02:44	buy track
4.	Lester's Be-Bop Boogie 04:04	buy track
5.	Six Cats And A Prince 03:29	buy track
6.	My Man 03:21	buy track
7.	The Goon Drag 04:05	buy track
8.	Shoe Shine Boy 03:34	buy track
9.	Ad-Lib Blues 03:19	buy track
10.	I Want A Little Girl 04:46	buy track
11.	Evenin' 02:59	buy track
12.	Tickle Toe 04:00	buy track
13.	Sun Showers 03:16	buy track
14.	Dickie's Dream 02:33	buy track

about

Label: Sing My Title
Catalog No: SMT-010

Issued on CD as well as pure analog vinyl with liner notes by Tom Callens, ‘Red Label: Hommage to Lester Young & the Basie-Ites’ was recorded entirely live in one room with a multitrack setup (using multiple microphones as opposed to one central microphone), mixed live on the fly to two-track analog tape and without use of any computer. The vinyl was mastered and cut from tape in Dublin using a fully analog signal path, the process that was used before the coming of digital audio.

The fourteen tracks are a selection of tunes that are related to Lester Young and the Count Basie groups, such as the first ever track that Lester recorded at the age of 27, ‘Shoe Shine Boy’, or his own compositions ‘Tickle Toe’, ‘Lester’s Be-Bop Boogie’ and ‘Ad-Lib Blues’; the famous Fletcher Henderson arrangement of ‘King Porter Stomp’ that every big band like the Count Basie Orchestra or the Benny Goodman Orchestra had to play; the famous Basie hit ‘One O’Clock Jump’ and the songs we know from Billie Holiday ‘Easy Living’ and ‘My Man’ sung on this record by guest vocalist Delphine Gardin.

Since its appearance in 2018 it sold to an international audience of jazz lovers and dancers, met with positive reviews and is sometimes used in international dance battles, teachings and choreographies.

credits

released November 2, 2018

Frederik Van den Berghe - drums
Sam Gerstmans - bass
Victor da Costa - guitar
Luk Vermeir - piano
Hans Bossuyt - trumpet
David Lukács - clarinet, tenor sax
Tom Callens - tenor sax, vocal
Delphine Gardin - vocal
Bart Vervaeck - rhythm guitar

Produced by Tom Callens
Recorded 7, 8, 11 March 2018 at Robot Studios, Gent - Belgium
Engineer, tape-op, mix: Pieterjan Coppejans
Mastering for CD: Uwe Teichert at Elektropolis, Brussels - Belgium
Analog mastering & lacquer cutting: Aidan Foley, Hayley Connolly at Masterlabs, Dublin - Ireland
Lacquer processing and vinyl pressing: GZ Media, Loděnice - Czech Republic
Photo by Grégoire Verbeke
Artwork design by Tom Callens, executed by Carl Compernolle – Animus Design

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A swing jazz septet formed by saxophonist Tom Callens, Lester's Blues pay hommage to and play the energetic effortless swinging style and music of 1930's small groups of Count Basie, Lester Young and their peers.

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