“Lester Leaps In” [Count Basie, Basie, Americans #1 Band, Columbia/Legacy: C4K 87110, 4 CD set, 1936-51, c2003] Count Basie Kansas City Seven, “Lester Leaps In” (Count Basie), September 5, 1939. Lester Young, tenor saxophone (ts); Buck Clayton, trumpet (t); Dicky Wells, trombone, (tb); Count Basie, piano (p); Freddie Green, guitar […]