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Going for Myself

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Going for Myself

Studio album by Harry "Sweets" Edison and Lester Young
Released	1957
Recorded	July 31, 1957, Hollywood, Los Angeles (February 7, 1958, New York City, reissue bonus tracks)
Genre	Jazz
Length	42:59 (original LP) 75:50 (CD reissue)
Label	Verve MGV 8298 Lone Hill Jazz LHJ10344
Producer	Norman Granz

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
DownBeat	^[2]

Going For Myself is a 1957 jazz album by Harry "Sweets" Edison and Lester Young, accompanied by Oscar Peterson. The album is one of Young's last studio recordings.

Track listing

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"Flic" (Oscar Peterson, Lester Young) - 06:16
"Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 05:53
"St. Tropez" (Harry "Sweets" Edison, Peterson, Young) - 10:05
"Waldorf Blues" (Young) - 08:19
"Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) - 06:55
"You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) - 07:43

Bonus tracks on CD reissue in 2012:

Ballad medley: "A Ghost of a Chance"/"I Cover the Waterfront" (Ned Washington, Ned Young, Bing Crosby)/(Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 5:51
"Perdido" (Juan Tizol, Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder) - 6:14
"St. Tropez" - 6:55 - Alternate take
"You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" - 7:43 - Alternate take
"Waldorf Blues" 6:16 - Alternate take

Personnel

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Lester Young - tenor saxophone, clarinet (03 &09)
Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet

(Hollywood, July 31, 1957) (Tracks# 01-03, 07-09)

(New York, February 7, 1958) (Tracks# 04-06, 10-11)

Lou Stein - piano
Herb Ellis - guitar
Ray Brown - double bass
Mickey Sheen - drums

References

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^ Going for MyselfatAllMusic

^ Gleason, Ralph J. (12 May 1960). "Lester Young: Going for Myself". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 10. p. 34.

Lester Young

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

Studio albums

The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio (1946)
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1952)
Pres and Sweets (1955)
The Jazz Giants '56 (1956)
Pres and Teddy (1956)
Going for Myself (1957)
Laughin' to Keep from Cryin' (1958)

Harry Edison

Studio albums

Buddy and Sweets (1955)
Pres and Sweets (1955)
Sweets (1956)
Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You (1957)
Jazz Giants '58 (1958)
Going for Myself (1958)
The Swinger (1958)
Mr. Swing (1958)
Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton (1958)
Sweetenings (1958)
Patented by Edison (1960)
Together (1961)
Jawbreakers (1962)
Wanted to Do One Together (1962)
"Sweets" for the Sweet (1964)
Sweets for the Sweet Taste of Love (1964)
When Lights are Low (1966)
The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974)
Oscar Peterson and Harry Edison (1974)
Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1974)
Edison's Lights (1976)
Simply Sweets (1978)
Just Friends (1978)
Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (1986) w
For My Pals (1988)

Oscar Peterson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Note: All-Star albums feature sideman who are not necessarily listed while titles which include "Oscar Peterson" or the OP Trio are usually shortened.

As
leader
or
co-leader

Plays series	Duke Ellington (1952) George Gershwin (1952) Harold Arlen (1954) Count Basie (1955)
1955–58	In a Romantic Mood (with Russ Garcia, 1955) At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956) At the Concertgebouw (1957) Soft Sands (with Buddy Bregman, 1957) Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957) My Fair Lady (1958) On the Town (1958) A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra (1959) The Jazz Soul (1959) Swinging Brass (with Russ Garcia, 1959) Fiorello! (1960)
Plays the Songbook (1959)	Cole Porter Duke Ellington George Gershwin Harold Arlen Jerome Kern Richard Rodgers Porgy & Bess
The London House Sessions (1961)	Put On a Happy Face Something Warm The Sound of the Trio The Trio (Verve)
Trio & Guests	Very Tall (with Milt Jackson, 1961) Affinity (1962) Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band! (1962) Night Train (1962) West Side Story (1962) And Nelson Riddle (1963) Canadiana Suite (1964) Plays (1964) + One (with Clark Terry, 1964) We Get Requests (1964) Eloquence (1965) I/We Had a Ball (multiple groups, 1965) With Respect to Nat (1965) Blues Etude (1966) Soul Español (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple groups, 1967)
Exclusively for My Friends	Action (1963–64) Girl Talk (1965–68) The Way I Really Play (1967) The Lost Tapes (1967–68) Mellow Mood (1968) My Favorite Instrument (1968) Travelin' On (1968)
1969–79	Hello Herbie (1969) Motions and Emotions (with Claus Ogerman, 1969) Another Day (1970) Tracks (1970) Tristeza on Piano (1970) Walking the Line (1970) Great Connection (1971) In Tune (and The Singers Unlimited, 1971) Reunion Blues (and Milt Jackson, 1971) In Tokyo (1972) Solo (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 1 (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 2 (1972) The trio (Pablo, 1973) In Russia (1974) The Giants (1974) The Good Life (1974) Oscar Peterson et Joe Pass à Salle Pleyel (1975) Porgy and Bess (and Joe Pass, 1975) The Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux (1975) The Tenor Giants (and Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) And the Bassists – Montreux '77 (and Ray Brown & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1977) Jam – Montreux '77 (1977) The London Concert (1978) The Paris Concert (1978) Digital at Montreux (1979) Night Child (1979) Skol (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1979)
With The Trumpet Kings	Roy Eldridge (1974) Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Jousts (1974) Harry Edison (1974) Clark Terry (1975) Jon Faddis (1975) At Montreux '75 (Eldridge, Gillespie & Terry, 1975) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980) The Alternate Blues (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980)
1980–2004	Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Personal Touch (1980) A Royal Wedding Suite (1981) Nigerian Marketplace (1981) Face to Face (with Freddie Hubbard, 1982) Freedom Song (1982) A Tribute to My Friends (1983) If You Could See Me Now (1983) Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (multiple groups, 1983) Two of the Few (with Milt Jackson, 1983) Live! (1986) Time After Time (1986) Live at the Blue Note (1990) Saturday Night at the Blue Note (1991) Last Call at the Blue Note (1992) Encore at the Blue Note (1993) Side by Side (with Itzhak Perlman, 1994) The More I See You (1995) An Oscar Peterson Christmas (1995) A Tribute to Oscar Peterson – Live at the Town Hall (1996) Oscar in Paris (1996) Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (1996) Oscar and Benny (with Benny Green, 1998) Summer Night in Munich (1998) Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite (2000) A Night in Vienna (2004)