[78-L] Lester Young?

[David Lennick]

I love the review....

  Review by arwulf arwulf

Steer clear of this creepy bootleg! Sax-A-Plenty has 15 titles, some of which 
appear to have been made up by the maladjusted individuals who simultaneously 
issued them under this title on Wesgram and as "Tenor King" on "Prestige" 
(perhaps a counterfeit version of the real Prestige label) with a photo of Paul 
Gonsalves on the cover! Let's reiterate in plain terminology: several of these 
titles were apparently invented by the producers of this highly suspect album 
and do not exist in any Lester Young discography or session index. The 
fraudulence of Sax-A-Plenty is greatly magnified by another release of the same 
questionable material on an album called Tenor King that has the name Lester 
Young posted on the cover with a photograph of tenor saxophonist Paul 
Gonsalves. For pity's sake, didn't Lester Young have a hard enough life? How on 
earth could these people justify this kind of posthumous abuse and chicanery? 
Steer clear of this appalling abomination as well as its ghoulish twin, Tenor 
King. And shame upon those who committed these disrespectful crimes of 
negligence against the creative spirit, the honored memory, and artistic legacy 
of Lester Young.

Made up artists and made up names are as bad as NO names. There are some 
Continental sides that have appeared on Remington, Continental and Plymouth lps 
with new titles attached, and my dad had a 12" Mercury lp called "Tenor Jazz" 
which didn't identify the performers anywhere (label, jacket).

dl

On 3/5/2014 1:39 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
> There's plenty of this stuff around which should consigned to Dept. 5H1T.
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>        Julian Vein
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> On 05/03/14 18:31, Joe Scott wrote:
>> http://www.allmusic.com/album/sax-a-plenty-mw0000406304
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>> Joseph Scott
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Don Cox
>> Sent: 03/04/14 01:03 PM
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Lester Young?
>>
>> On 04/03/2014, Julian Vein wrote:>  This is Paul Gonsalves!>  >  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tenor-King-Lester-Young/dp/B000024SZW/ref=sr_1_35?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393950714&sr=1-35&keywords=lester+young>  Indeed it is. I wonder who is playing on the disc. According to the only review there is no documentation, just a list of titles -- which do sound more like what Lester Young would play than Gonsalves. Or it might be by somebody else entirely. A cheap CD and rightly so. Regards -- Don Cox doncox at enterprise.net _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list
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