Ben Webster

Complete Quintet Studio Sessions (EJC 55588)

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Complete Quintet Studio Sessions

Ben Webster

Essential Jazz Classics

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EJC 136658

EJC 55588

JAZZ

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Complete Quintet Studio Sessions

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CD 14,98 €

4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

This CD comprises the complete LP Ben & Sweets (Columbia CS8691), the only quintet session fronted by Ben Webster and Harry “Sweets” Edison as a team. Also included here are all the existing alternate takes, appearing here for the first time on a single CD. As a bonus, all of the tracks featuring solos by Ben Webster from a very rare LP released under the leadership of guitarist Mundell Lowe. The album contains a selection of tunes from Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess”, arranged by the superlative guitarist. The other members of this amazing septet are Art Farmer. Don Elliot, Tony Scott. Osie Johnson, and the same bassist from the Ben & Sweets sides, George Duvivier

PERSONNEL:

BEN WEBSTER,
tenor sax
HARRY “SWEETS” EDISON, trumpet
HANK JONES, piano
GEORGE DUVIVIER, bass
CLARENCE JOHNSON, drums

New York, June 6 & 7, 1962

[10-13] Bonus tracks: Mundell Lowe Septet featuring Ben Webster:
Ben Webster (ts), Art Farmer (tp), Don Elliott (mellophone, vib),
Tony Scott (cl, bar), Mundell Lowe (g), George Duvivier (b),
Osie Johnson (d). New York, July 16 & 17, 1958.

INCLUDES 12 PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 Better Go
02 How Long Has This Been Going On?
03 Kitty
04 My Romance
05 Did You Call Her Today?
06 Embraceable You
07 How Long Has This Been Going On? (Alternate Take)
08 Kitty (Alternate Take)
09 Did You Call Her Today? (Alternate Take)
10 Summertime
11 Bess, You Is My Woman
12 I Got Plenty Of Nothing
13 My Man’s Gone Now

TOTAL TIME: : 77:08