Ben Webster - Big Ben Time!(1967 / 1984)
Año grab.: 1967 - Edición CD: 1984
Género: Jazz / Estilo: Standards
Tracklist:
01. How Deep Is The Ocean?
02. My One And Only Love
03. Honeysuckle Rose
04. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
05. Exactly Like You
06. Where Or When
07. Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'
08. Solitude
09. You Forgot To Remember
10. The Jeep Is Jumpin'
Personnnel:
Ben Webster (Tenor Sax)
Dick Katz (Piano)
Alan Haven (Organ)
Spike Heatley (Bass)
Tony Crombie (Drums)
Nota:
The great box-like figure and slow rolling walk of Ben Webster have become familiar sights in European cities since 1965, when he settled -gradually but apparently permanently- into life on this side of the Atlantic (at the time of writing, late 1967, he regards Amsterdam as his base). The sound of his tenor saxophone, though, sometimes hot and hoarse, increasingly often a stream of tuned puffs of wind, has been known to European jazz record collectors a good deal longer. Ben Webster came to prominence, slipping out from the shadow of Coleman Hawkins, so to speak, during his comparatively short stay with Duke Ellington in 1939-43. He was in his early thirties then, and had already worked with Bennie Moten, Benny Carter, Fletcher Henderson and many others; there had also been an intermittent association with the Ellington orchestra from as far back as 1935. ~ Charles Middleton
