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Title information

Sometimes I'm Happy

Lester Young

Verve Jazz Masters 30

Date of recording

28.12.1943, New York City

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Performers

Lester Young (Soloist) (tenor sax)

* 27.8.1909, Woodville, Mississippi (MS), United States

† 15.3.1959, New York City, New York (NY), United States

Johnny Guarneri (Soloist) (piano)

* 23.3.1917, New York City, New York (NY), United States

† 7.1.1985, Livingston, New Jersey (NJ), United States

Slam Stewart (Soloist) (Double Bass)

* 21.9.1914, Englewood, New Jersey (NJ), United States

† 10.12.1987, Binghamton, New York (NY), United States

Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett (Soloist) (drums)

* 17.1.1910, Evansville, Indiana (IN), United States

† 25.3.1951, Chicago, Illinois (IL), United States

Authors

Vincent Youmans (Composer)

* 27.9.1898, New York City, New York (NY), United States

† 5.4.1946, Denver, Colorado (CO), United States

Irving Caesar (Text author)

* 4.7.1895, New York City, New York (NY), United States

† 18.12.1996, New York City, New York (NY), United States

Leo Robin

* 6.4.1900, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PA), United States

† 29.12.1984, Woodland Hills, California (CA), United States

Clifford Grey

* 5.1.1887, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

† 25.9.1941

Album information

Verve Jazz Masters 30

Lester Young

Verve Jazz Masters 30

Year of production

1994

Record Label

Verve

Tracks

  • 1. Love Me Or Leave Me
  • 2. Sometimes I'm Happy
  • 3. I've Found A New Baby
  • 4. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
  • 5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
  • 6. Back Home Again In Indiana
  • 7. Prisoner Of Love
  • 8. In A Little Spanish Town
  • 9. Just You, Just Me
  • 10. Peg O' My Heart = Peg o' my heart
  • 11. Too Marvelous For Words
  • 12. All Of Me
  • 13. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
  • 14. Mean To Me
  • 15. I Never Knew