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

by Lester's Blues

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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.

    SHIPPING:
    - As a kind of discount, when buying multiple items: shipping price doesn't increase
    - CD is shipped through Belgian post using non-tracked mail to lower cost, if you require tracked shipping please contact me
    - Occasional shipping delays are possible, I am a working musician often on tour, please contact me if you require the item before a certain deadline

    Includes unlimited streaming of Red Label: Hommage to Lester Young & the Basie-Ites via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days

      €10 EUR or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    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.

    SHIPPING:
    - As a kind of discount, when buying multiple items: shipping price doesn't increase
    - If you also pre-order the Blue Album: ships in one package once Blue Album is released
    - Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal: prices include shipping to personal address with tracking code using Mondial Relay
    - France: price includes shipping to pick-up point with tracking code using Mondial Relay
    - Rest of Europe & World: price includes shipping to personal address WITHOUT TRACKING using Belgian post, to save on shipping cost. You take responsibility for choosing this service in case goods get lost or damaged in the mail. If you want tracking or another service (more expensive) contact me and we'll sort it out.
    - Occasional shipping delays are possible, I am a working musician often on tour, please contact me if you require the item before a certain deadline

    Includes unlimited streaming of Red Label: Hommage to Lester Young & the Basie-Ites via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ... more
    ships out within 7 days
    edition of 500 

      €15 EUR or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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

      €8 EUR  or more

     

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Easy Living 02:44
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My Man 03:21
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Ad-Lib Blues 03:19
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Evenin' 02:59
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Tickle Toe 04:00
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Sun Showers 03:16
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*** SALES OF VINYL / CD TEMPORARILY ON PAUSE UNTIL MARCH 2024 ***

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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