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 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.

Track listing

LP Side A
  1. "Back to the Land" – 3:52
  2. "I've Found a New Baby" – 4:04
  3. "I Cover the Waterfront" – 4:03
  4. "Somebody Loves Me" – 3:54
LP Side B
  1. "I Want to Be Happy" – 3:56
  2. "The Man I Love" – 4:48
  3. "Mean to Me" – 4:09
  4. "Peg O' My Heart" – 4:02

Personnel