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 Big Ben

Name:  Big Ben
Artist: Ben Webster
Styles: 5 - B - Jazz - S
Media: Audio CD
Features: Box set
Release Date: 11 March 2002
Label: Proper
  
UPC Catalogue No: 805520020374
Amazon Sales Ranking: 42502
Number of Discs: 4

Description
 
As a meticulous selection of over 90 titles from the first 20 years of the Webster discography Big Ben could hardly be bettered. It traces the career of one of the great masters of the tenor saxophone from his unimpressive beginnings in 1931 to the marvellous years with Duke Ellington in the early 40s and the freelancing which followed, culminating in two sessions from 1951 which demonstrate Webster's incomparable ballad style in its full maturity.

The first CD traces the early stylistic developments through sessions with Bennie Moten, Fletcher Henderson, Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson, while the second covers the period with Ellington which also included dates with Jack Teagarden and Slim Gaillard. Among the tracks selected here are the first recordings of such classics as "Cottontail", "Sepia Panorama", "Chelsea Bridge" and "Perdido". The third and fourth CDs follow Ben through the 40s as he recorded with big band leaders Woody Herman and Jay McShann, veterans including Hot Lips Page and Cozy Cole and boppers such as Dizzy Gillespie and Idrees Sulieman. There are also eight tracks from two quartet sessions featuring the unique drumming of Big Sid Catlett and showing Webster at his most relaxed. Lengthy and informative notes by producer Joop Visser complete an attractively produced package representing exceptional value for money. --Graham Colombé

  

Tracks
 1  Blanche Calloway And Her Joy Boys - Without That Gal
 2  Bennie Moten s Kansas City Orchestra - Toby
 3  Bennie Moten s Kansas City Orchestra - The Blue Room
 4  Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra - Happy As The Day Is Long
 5  Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra - Hotter Than 'Ell
 6  Benny Carter And His Orchestra - Dream Lullaby
 7  Benny Carter And His Orchestra - Everybody Shuffle
 8  Bob Howard And His Orchestra - The Ghost Of Dinah
 9  Willie Bryant And His Orchestra - Rigamarole
 10  Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra - What A Little Moonlight Can Do
 11  Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra - A Sunbonnet Blue
 12  Willie Bryant And His Orchestra - The Voice Of Old Man River
 13  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Truckin'
 14  Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - In A Jam
 15  Cab Calloway And His Orchestra - The Wedding Of Mr And Mrs Swing
 16  Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra - Easy To Love
 17  Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra - I'll See You In My Dreams
 18  Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra - Sing You Sinners
 19  Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra - Early Session Hop
 20  Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra - 71
 21  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Solitude
 22  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Congo Brava
 23  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Cotton Tail
 24  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Bojangles (A Portrait Of Bill Robinson)
 1  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - All Too Soon
 2  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Sepia Panorama
 3  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Chloe
 4  Rex Stewart And His Orchestra - Linger Awhile
 5  Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Stardust
 6  Barney Bigard And His Orchestra - Lament For Javanette
 7  Jack Teagarden s Big Eight - St James Infirmary
 8  Jack Teagarden s Big Eight - The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
 9  Jack Teagarden s Big Eight - Big Eight Blues
 10  Jack Teagarden s Big Eight - Shine
 11  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Blue Serge
 12  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Just A-Settin' And A-Rockin'
 13  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Five O'Clock Drag
 14  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Chelsea Bridge
 15  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Perdido
 16  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - The "C" Jam Blues
 17  Slim Gaillard & His Flat Foot Floogie Boys - Palm Springs Jump
 18  Slim Gaillard & His Flat Foot Floogie Boys - Ra-Da-Da-Da
 19  Slim Gaillard & His Flat Foot Floogie Boys - Groove Juice Special
 20  Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Main Stem
 21  Ben Webster Quintet - Woke Up Clipped
 22  Ben Webster Quintet - Teezol
 23  Ben Webster Quintet - 'Nuff Said
 1  Ben Webster Quintet - The Horn
 2  Ben Webster Quintet - Dirty Deal
 3  Ben Webster Quintet - Don't Blame Me
 4  Ben Webster Quintet - I Surrender Dear
 5  Ben Webster Quintet - Tea For Two
 6  Woody Herman And His Orchestra - Noah
 7  Woody Herman And His Orchestra - Cryin' Sands
 8  James P. Johnson s Blue Note Jazzmen - Victory Stride
 9  James P. Johnson s Blue Note Jazzmen - After You've Gone
 10  Cozy Cole All Stars - Joshua
 11  Cozy Cole All Stars - Talk To Me
 12  Cozy Cole All Stars - Body And Soul
 13  Big Sid Catlett Quartet - Sleep
 14  Big Sid Catlett Quartet - Linger Awhile
 15  Big Sid Catlett Quartet - Memories Of You
 16  Big Sid Catlett Quartet - Just A Riff
 17  Walter "Foots" Thomas And His Jump Cats - Blues On The Delta
 18  Ben Webster Quartet - Honeysuckle Rose
 19  Ben Webster Quartet - I Surrender Dear
 20  Ben Webster Quartet - Blue Skies
 21  Ben Webster Quartet - Kat's Fur
 22  Benny Morton All Stars - My Old Flame
 23  Benny Morton All Stars - The Sheik Of Araby
 1  Benny Morton All Stars - Conversing In Blue
 2  Benny Morton All Stars - Limehouse Blues
 3  Woody Herman All Stars - John Hardy's Wife
 4  Ben Webster And His Orchestra - The Jeep Is Jumpin
 5  Ben Webster And His Orchestra - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
 6  Ben Webster And His Orchestra - Dark Corners
 7  Ben Webster And His Orchestra - Blues, Mr Brim
 8  Ben Webster Quintet - Frog And Mule
 9  Ben Webster Quintet - Spang
 10  Ben Webster Quintet - Doctor Keets
 11  Ben Webster Quintet - Park And Tilford Blues
 12  Tony Scott Sextet - You're Only Happy When I'm Blue
 13  Jay McShann And His Orchestra - New Style Baby
 14  Jay McShann And His Orchestra - Let's Love Awhile
 15  Jay McShann And His Orchestra - Nasty Attitude
 16  Jay McShann And His Orchestra - Slow Down Baby
 17  Jay McShann And His Orchestra - The Duke And The Brute
 18  Jay McShann And His Orchestra - Reach
 19  Johnny Otis And His Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump
 20  Johnny Otis And His Orchestra - Stardust
 21  Ben Webster Sextet - Randle's Island
 22  Ben Webster Sextet - Old Folks
 23  Ben Webster Sextet - King's Riff
 24  Ben Webster Sextet - You're My Thrill

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