Ben Webster

3 LPS ON 2 CD Plus 3 BONUS TRACKS

This release presents all of the Ben Webster-Oscar Peterson quartet/quintet collaborations featuring Webster as the only horn player, reunited for the first time ever on one single set. Included are the complete classic albums Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson and Soulville. Also here are the quintet sessions originally issued on the King Of The Tenors LP. As a bonus, some Webster-Peterson collaborations in larger groups: a Ballad Medley from their first recorded session together, five septet tracks with Harry Edison & Benny Carter that complete the King Of The Tenors album, and three songs from the Soulville sessions with Webster at the piano.

PERSONNEL:

BEN WEBSTER (ts), OSCAR PETERSON (p), On all tracks plus:

CD 1 [1-7:] BEN WEBSTER MEETS OSCAR PETERSON:
RAY BROWN, bass
ED THIGPEN, drums
Los Angeles, November 6, 1959.

CD 2 [1-7] SOULVILLE:
HERB ELLIS, guitar
RAY BROWN, bass
STAN LEVE, drums
Los Angeles, October 15, 1957.

CD 1 [8-12] & CD 1 [13] From KING OF THE TENORS: 1953 Quintet sessions.

BONUS TRACKS:

CD 1 [14] All Star Jam Session (1952).

CD 2 [8-12] From KING OF THE TENORS: Septet with HARRY "SWEETS" EDISON & BENNY CARTER (1953).

CD 2 [13-15] Omit PETERSON. BEN WEBSTER plays piano. Los Angeles, October 15, 1957.

INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

CD 1: Total Time: 76:24

01. The Touch Of Your Lips
02. When Your Lover Has Gone
03. Bye Bye Blackbird
04. How Deep Is The Ocean
05. In The Wee Small Hours Of 6 The Morning
06. Sunday
07. This Can't Be Love
08. Poutin'
09. Cotton
10. Danny Boy [LondonderryAir]
11. Bounce Blues
12. Bounce Blues [Alt. Take]
13. Tenderly, 14. Ballad Medley

CD 2: Total Time: 66:15

01. Soulville
02. Late Date
03. Time On My Hands
04. Lover, Come Back To Me
05. Where Are You?
06. Makin' Whoopee
07. Ill Wind
08. That's All
09. That's All [Alt Take]
10. Pennies From Heaven
11. Jive At Six
12. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
13. Who
14. Boogie Woogie
15. Roses Of Picardy