Title: Blue Skies Artist: Ben Webster Release Date: 5/17/2005 Label: Fruit Tree Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 8013252384523 Genre: Jazz Styles: Mainstream Jazz, Traditional Pop Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Earthy, Exuberant, Joyous, Complex, Elegant, Freewheeling, Passionate, Stylish, Boisterous, Gentle Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Blues on the Delta
2. Cotton Tail
3. Blue Serge
4. Pick Up Boys
5. Just A-Settin' and A-Rockin'
6. Teezol
7. Blues Skies
8. Sleep
9. All Too Soon
10. Linger a While
11. The Horn
12. New Orleans
13. Body and Soul
14. Victory Stride
15. The Ghost of Dinah
16. Dream Lullaby
17. Sing You Sinners
18. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
19. Stardust
20. With That Girl
21. Conga Brava
22. Easy to Love
23. 71
24. Hotter Than Hell

Year Type Label Catalog # 2005 CD Fruit Tree 845

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Ben Webster was never a particularly innovative or experimental tenor sax player, so he often gets overlooked when discussions turn to the greatest sax players of the 20th century, but he could do two things as well as anyone who ever picked up the instrument. He could blow rough and raspy and he could go sweet as fresh sugar on a ballad until one would swear the whole world was weeping. Webster didn't expand, deconstruct, and re-form melodies; he simply made them speak in a way that made the heart swell. This poorly annotated set has examples of both approaches recorded between 1934 and 1944, including the gently rolling "Blues on the Delta," a trademark romp on Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail," and gorgeous melodic turns on Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust." This same era has been covered many times on other Webster anthologies, so it's difficult to recommend this one simply because of its lack of track information, but the music itself is top-notch, swinging and sighing by turns. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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