After Hours Middle East is an album recorded by Sonny Lester & His Orchestra. Sonny Lester (1924–2018) was a band leader and jazz producer. In the early 1960s, spending time after hours was apparently a successful pastime for Lester who released a number of “After Hours” records, each named after a town or country across the ocean: Spain, Italy, Paris (1964), or closer to home: New York (1963).