Ben Webster - The Two Sides of the Great Tenor: 1932-1951

Title: The Two Sides of the Great Tenor: 1932-1951 Artist: Ben Webster Release Date: 10/11/2005 Label: Jazz Legends Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 723721070359 Genre: Jazz Styles: Swing, Mainstream Jazz, Traditional Pop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz 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. New Orleans
2. Happy as the Day Is Long
3. Hotter Than 'Ell
4. Dream Lullaby
5. Everybody Shuffle
6. The Voice of Old Man River
7. Bojangles
8. All Too Soon
9. Shine
10. Just A-Settin' and A-Rockin'
11. Chelsea Bridge
12. Honeysuckle Rose
13. I Surrender Dear
14. Blue Skies
15. Kat's Fur
16. Frog and Mule
17. Spang
18. Randle's Island
19. Old Folks
20. You're My Thrill
21. King's Riff

Year Type Label Catalog # 2005 CD Jazz Legends 1026

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Tenor saxophonist Ben Webster had a hushed, honeyed horn tone on ballads that could make anyone's heart leap, and his smooth, whispered (and even sometimes slightly slurred) sax lines sounded like nothing so less than one side of an extremely intimate conversation. He could sound down and dirty when he wanted to, though, and was no slouch on up-tempo numbers, where his sax exchanged some of its honey for a touch of raspy roughness. This set includes a little of both, gathering tracks recorded between 1932 and 1951 featuring Webster with the Duke Ellington, Willie Bryant, Bennie Moten, Benny Carter, and Fletcher Henderson orchestras, as well as a handful of quartet tracks with Johnny Guarnieri on piano, Oscar Pettiford on bass, and David Booth on drums. Check out the sheer presence of Webster's horn work on "Old Folks" and the way his sax sweet talks its way through "You're My Thrill." He may not have been the most innovative tenor sax player, but he could talk the talk one hears late at night when nothing else matters and everything's at stake. Simply put, Ben Webster's playing can break your heart and heal it at the same time. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Name Credits Al Haig Piano Arnold Adams Guitar Barney Bigard Clarinet Ben Smith Saxophone Ben Webster Sax (Tenor) Benny Morton's All Stars Trombone Big Sid Catlett Drums Bill DeArango Guitar Billy Kyle Piano Billy Strayhorn Piano Billy Taylor, Jr. Bass Brick Fleagle Guitar Buster Bailey Sax (Alto), Clarinet Clarence Holiday Guitar Claude Jones Trombone Cootie Williams Trumpet Count Basie Piano Cozy Cole Drums Dan Minor Trombone David Booth Drums, Drums Dee Stewart Trumpet Duke Ellington Piano Eddie Barefield Sax (Alto), Clarinet Eddie Durham Trombone Elmer James Bass Ernest "Bass" Hill Bass Fletcher Henderson Piano Fred Guy Guitar George Jenkins Drums George Matthews Trombone Gerald Wiggins Piano Glyn Paque Clarinet, Sax (Alto) Harry Carney Sax (Baritone) Henry "Red" Allen Trumpet Hilton Jefferson Sax (Alto), Clarinet Horace Henderson Piano Hot Lips Page Trumpet Irving "Mouse" Randolph Trumpet Jack Teagarden Trombone Jack Washington Sax (Baritone), Sax (Alto) Jimmy Blanton Bass Joe Keyes Trumpet John Haughton Trombone John Kirby Bass Johnny Guarnieri Piano Johnny Hodges Sax (Alto) Johnny Russell Sax (Tenor) Juan Tizol Trombone Junior Raglin Bass Keg Johnson Trombone Lawrence D. Brown Trombone Lawrence Lucie Guitar Leroy Berry Guitar Maynard Ferguson Trumpet Oscar Pettiford Bass, Bass (Acoustic) Ram Ramirez Piano Ray Nance Trumpet Rex Stewart Cornet Richard Clark Trumpet Robert Horton Trombone Russell Procope Sax (Alto), Clarinet Sam Nanton Trombone Scott Yanow Track Compilation Sonny Greer Drums Stanley Payne Sax (Alto) Wallace Jones Trumpet Walter Johnson Jr. Drums Walter Page Bass Willie Bryant Vocals Willie McWashington Drums