Some times I just want to sit back and relax. To listen with no pressure other than to chill out and enjoy one of the most, maybe the most, beautiful albums ever recorded.
Ben Webster, Art Tatum, Red Callender and Bill Douglass were perfection personified on that day - Sept. 11, 1956 - when Norman Granz assembled them in the Verve studios.
Ben's big fat sound, Tatum's Artistry and the discreet bass and drums make this unbeatable for sheer lyricism. Over the years the solos, the nuances have become embedded within.
This is from the original American pressing and has an extra track (All the Things You Are) that was missing from the UK Columbia release. There's also some solo piano added on - some of the same tunes sans Ben! Lance
Quartet:All the Things You Are; Gone With the Wind; Have You Met Miss Jones?; Night and Day; Where or When; My Ideal; My One and Only Love.
Solo piano: All the Things You Are; Gone With the Wind: Have You Met Miss Jones?; Night and Day; Where or When; My Ideal; My One and Only Love.
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Ah, this is a wonderful album - we had the original vinyl ..... amazing, and as you say, so lyrical. Ben Webster had such a recognisable sound on the tenor - quite erotic in its lush, warm tone on those ballads.
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