Disc One - Lester Leaps In
1. SHOE SHINE BOY (Cahn, Chaplin) 1936
2. OH, LADY BE GOOD (G. & I. Gershwin) 1936
3. THIS YEAR’S KISSES (Berlin) 1937
4. EASY LIVING (Robin, Rainger) 1937
5. MY, MYSELF AND I (Gordon, Roberts, Kaufman) 1937
6. A SAILBOAT IN THE MOON LIGHT (Lombardo, Loeb) 1937
7. ONE O’CLOCK JUMP (Basie) 1937
8. WHEN YOU’RE SMILING (Shay, Goodwin, Fisher) 1938
9. EVERY TUB (Basie) 1938
10. SWINGING THE BLUES (Basie, Durham) 1938
11. DOGGIN’ AROUND (Evans, Battle) 1938
12. JUMPIN’ AT THE WOODSIDE (Basie) 1938
13. I CAN’T GET STARTED (Gershwin, Duke) 1938
14. WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS (Layton, Creamer) 1938
15. COUNTLESS BLUES (Gabler) 1938
16. I WANT A LITTLE GIRL (Moll, Mencher) 1938
17. SHORTY GEORGE (Edison) 1938
18. PANNASSIE STOMP (Basie) 1938
19. YOU CAN DEPEND ON ME (Carpenter) 1939
20. CHEROKEE, PT 1 & 2 (Noble) 1939
21. JIVE AT FIVE (Edison, Basie) 1939
22. TAXI WAR DANCE (Basie, Young) 1939
23. POUND CAKE (Edison, Basie) 1939
24. CLAP HANDS, HERE COMES CHARLIE (Rose, Macdonald, Meyer) 1939

Disc Two - Afternoon Of A Basie-ite
1. DICKIE’S DREAM (Basie, Young) 1939
2. LESTER LEAPS IN (Young) 1939
3. TICKLE TOE (Young) 1940
4. AD-LIB BLUES (Goodman, Christian, Young) 1940
5. I NEVER KNEW (Fio Rito, Kahn) 1940
6. LESTER’S DREAM (Young) 1940
7. BROADWAY (Woode, McRae, Bird) 1940
8. TICKLE TOE (Young) 1941
9. TAXI WAR DANCE (Basie, Young) 1941
10. BLITZKRIEG BABY (YOU CAN’T BOMB ME) (Fisher, Fisher) 1941
11. BEAUTIFUL EYES (Snyder, Whiting, DeHaven) 1941
12. THINGS ABOUT COMING MY WAY (Price) 1941
13. JUST JIVIN’ AROUND (Price) 1941
14. ALL OF ME (Simons, Marks) 1941
15. I CAN’T GET STARTED (Gershwin, Duke) 1942
16. TEA FOR TWO (Caesar, Youmans) 1942
17. BODY AND SOUL (Green, Sour, Heyman, Eyton) 1942
18. HELLO BABE (Wells) 1944
19. JUST YOU, JUST ME (Green, Klages) 1944
20. AFTERNOON OF A BASIE-ITE (Young) 1944

Disc Three - Lester Leaps Again
1. SOMETIMES I’M HAPPY (Caesar, Youmans) 1944
2. AFTER THEATRE JUMP (Wells) 1944
3. SIX CATS AND A PRINCE (Clayton) 1944
4. LESTER LEAPS AGAIN (Clayton) 1944
5. DESTINATION K.C. CLAYTON (Clayton) 1944
6. I GOT RHYTHM (G. & I. Gershwin) 1944
7. POOR LITTLE PLAYTHING (Warren) 1944
8. EXERCISE IN SWING (Guarnieri) 1944
9. SALUTE TO FATS (Guarnieri) 1944
10. BLUE LESTER (LESTER’S BLUES) (Young) 1944
11. GHOST OF A CHANCE (Young, Washington, Crosby) 1944
12. JUMP, LESTER JUMP (Young) 1944
13. MIDNIGHT SYMPHONY (Trad.) 1944
14. D.B. BLUES (Young, Beaks) 1945
15. LESTER BLOWS AGAIN (Young) 1945
16. THESE FOOLISH THINGS (Link, Strachey, Marvell) 1945
17. JUMPIN’ AT MESNER’S (Young) 1945
18. BACK TO THE LAND (Young) 1946
19. I COVER THE WATERFRONT (Heyman, Green) 1946
20. I’VE FOUND A NEW BABY (Palmer, Williams) 1946
21. I WANT TO BE HAPPY (Caesar, Youmans) 1946

Disc Four - Ding Dong
1. IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (Arlen, Rose, Harburg) 1946
2. LOVER COME BACK TO ME (Hammerstein, Romberg) 1946
3. YOU’RE DRIVING ME CRAZY (Donaldson) 1946
4. LESTER’S BE-BOP BOOGIE (Young) 1946
5. SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY (Daniels, Whiting) 1946
6. SUNDAY (Miller, Cohn, Stein, Krueger) 1947
7. S.M. BLUES (Young) 1947
8. JUMPIN’ WITH SYMPHONY SID (Young, Beaks) 1947
9. ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET (Fields, McHugh) 1947
10. SAX-O-BE-BOP (Young) 1947
11. JUST COOLING (Young) 1948
12. I’M CONFESSIN’ (THAT I LOVE YOU) (Neiburg, Dougherty, Reynolds) 948
13. EAST OF THE SUN (Bowman) 1948
14. THE SHEIK OF ARABY (Synder, Wheeler, Sith) 1948
15. SOMETHING TO REMEMBER YOU BY (Schwartz, Dietz) 1948
16. DING DONG (Young) 1949
17. BLUES ‘N’ BELLS (Young) 1949
18. LESTER LEAPS IN (Young) 1949
19. EMBRACEABLE YOU (G. & I. Gershwin) 1949

Compiled and produced for release by Joop Visser.
Digital remastering by Peter Rynston at Tall Order Studios.

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