Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1954 studio album by American saxophonist Lester Young, accompanied by Oscar Peterson's working trio of the time (featuring Ray Brown and Barney Kessel), plus drummer J. C. Heard. The music on this album was originally released as three separate albums: Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #1 and Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #2, both released in June 1954 (MGN 5 & 6), and The President (August 1954, MGN 1005). It was collated for this 1997 reissue by Verve Records.^[3]

1. "Ad Lib Blues" (Oscar Peterson, Lester Young) – 5:54
2. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 3:41
3. "Just You, Just Me" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) – 7:40
4. "Almost Like Being in Love" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 3:34
5. "Tea for Two" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 7:45
6. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 3:28
7. "(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 7:04
8. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 3:27
9. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 3:35
10. "(I'm) Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds, Al J. Neiburg) – 3:41
11. "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" (McHugh, Fields) – 3:22
12. "These Foolish Things" (Jack Strachey, Holt Marvell, Harry Link) – 3:27
13. "(It Takes) Two to Tango": Rehearsal, False Start and Chatter (Al Hoffman, Dick Manning) – 6:06 Bonus track on CD reissue
14. "I Can't Get Started" – 0:53 Bonus track on CD reissue

Performance

• Lester Young – tenor saxophone, vocals on "Two to Tango"
• Oscar Peterson – piano
• Barney Kessel – guitar
• Ray Brown – double bass
• J. C. Heard – drums

Production

• Norman Granz – producer
• Nat Hentoff – liner notes