For Lady

For Lady (subtitled songs Billie Holiday made famous... an instrumental tribute to her great talents) is an album by the American jazz cornetist Webster Young.[1][2] It contains tracks recorded in 1957 for the Prestige label.[3][4]

For Lady
Studio album by
Webster Young
Released1957
RecordedJune 14, 1957
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length42:09
LabelPrestige
PR 7106
ProducerBob Weinstock
Webster Young chronology
Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors
(1957)		 For Lady
(1957)		 Webster Young Plays the Miles Davis Songbook
(1961)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]

AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars, with its review by Jim Todd stating: "While trumpeter Webster Young pays tribute to Billie Holiday on this, his only studio date as a leader, the set is equally a tribute to Young's musical role model, Miles Davis."[5] All About Jazz praised the album's "sleepy sadness," writing that "Young's approach to the trumpet was relaxed and steady ... bucking the trend toward the poker-hot heat beginning to be exhibited by Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard."[4]

Track listing
  1. "The Lady" (Webster Young) - 7:00
  2. "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 7:05
  3. "Moanin' Low" (Howard Dietz, Ralph Rainger) - 7:42
  4. "Good Morning Heartache" (Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham) - 8:54
  5. "Don't Explain" (Holiday, Herzog) - 7:10
  6. "Strange Fruit" (Abel Meeropol) - 4:18

Personnel

References
  1. Bernstein, Adam (December 18, 2003). "D.C. Jazz Trumpeter Webster Young Dies at 71" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  2. Carlson, Russell. "Trumpeter Webster Young Dies". JazzTimes.
  3. Prestige Records discography accessed May 28, 2013
  4. Jazz, All About. "Jazz news: Webster Young: For Lady". All About Jazz News.
  5. Todd, J. Allmusic review accessed May 28, 2013
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