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Something for Lester is an album by American jazz bassist Ray Brown recorded in 1977 and released on the Contemporary label.[1]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars with Scott Yanow noting “This excellent trio session forms a sort of transition between bassist Ray Brown’s work with the Oscar Peterson Trio and his own small-group sessions of the ’80s and ’90s”.[2]

DownBeat fave the album 5 stars.[3] Zan Stewart called the release a “very tasteful and extremely listenable album”.[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllmusicStarStarStarHalf star[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStar [4]
DownBeatStarStarStarStarStar

Track listing

  1. “Ojos de Rojo” (Cedar Walton) – 5:16
  2. “Slippery” – 7:27 (Ray Brown)
  3. “Something in Common” (Walton) – 4:50
  4. Love Walked In” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:25
  5. Georgia on My Mind” (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 7:11
  6. Little Girl Blue” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 6:17
  7. “Sister Sadie” (Horace Silver) – 4:54

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Contemporary Records discography accessed February 2, 2012
  2. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Something for Lester – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  3. ^ a b Stewart, Zan (November 17, 1979). “Record Reviews”. DownBeat. 46 (17): 42.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.