Jesse Drakes cannot be considered the most famous of jazz trumpeters by any standards; the average fan of the genre will probably think a group of male ducks is under discussion when confronted with the jazzman's surname. If tenor saxophonist Lester Young is a fan's main man, then the situation would change -- although fowl references would still be in flight. From the late '40s through the mid-'50s, Drakes was an almost constant sidekick of Young's in various excellent small gaggles; the brilliant and eccentric Young was fond of referring to these young sidemen as his "little chickees." The masterful drummer Roy Haynes was a youngster playing behind the horns in these groups, literally pecking out a tempo around the edges of Young's rubato ruminations.