title: The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio
text: # The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio
  
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  The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio is a jazz trio album recorded in Hollywood, California in March–April 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
  
  * "Back to the Land" (Young) – 3:52
  * "I've Found a New Baby" (Palmer, Williams) – 4:04
  * "I Cover the Waterfront" (Green, Heyman) – 4:03
  * "Somebody Loves Me" (MacDonald, DeSylva, Gershwin) – 3:54
  
  LP side B
  
  * "I Want to Be Happy" (Caesar, Youmans) – 3:56
  * "The Man I Love" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:48
  * "Mean to Me" (Ahlert, Turk) – 4:09
  * "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
  
  * ↑ Allmusic review
  * ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1536. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  * ↑ The Lester Young Trio (1951) Mercury MGC 104, re-issued as Clef MGC 104
  * ↑ The Lester Young Trio No. 2 (1953) Clef MGC 135
  * ↑ The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio (1955) Norgran MGN 1074, re-issued as Verve MGV 8164
  * ↑ Young / Cole duo - no drums
  * The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio at jazzdisco.org
  