Lester Young
Tenor Sax Solo on
There Will Never Be Another You

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Lester Young's tenor saxophone solo is the sole improvisation on this ballad-tempo rendition of Harry Warren's "There Will Never Be Another You" from The President Plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio. Young takes a half-chorus over the 32-bar ABAB' form in E-flat at a relaxed 85 BPM, crafting a brief but expressive statement over the 1942 film standard. Warren's composition, originally written for the Twentieth Century-Fox film Iceland, became a cornerstone of the jazz repertoire, and Young's half-chorus treatment approaches it with the melodic economy and emotional directness that characterized his ballad playing.

Lester Young was 42 to 43 years old at the time.