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Ben Webster.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- a Webster, Ben, 1909-1973, performer.
- Series:
- Giants of jazz
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Big band music.
- Jazz.
- Popular music--United States.
- Popular music.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Big band music.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in.
- 12 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Records, [1981]
- System Details:
- analog
- 33 1/3 rpm
- microgroove
- stereo
- mono
- Contents:
- Toby
- Lafayette
- Limehouse blues
- Happy as the day is long
- Dream lullaby (with Benny Carter and His Orchestra)
- A sunbonnet blue (and a yellow straw hat)
- The voice of old man river (with Willie Bryant and His Orchestra)
- I'll see you in my dreams
- Congo (with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra)
- Exact ly like you
- Early session hop (with Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra)
- Conga brava
- All too soon
- Chloe
- Linger awhile (with Rex Stewart and His Orchestra)
- Star dust
- St. James infirmary
- The world is waiting for the sunrise
- Shine
- Just a-settin' and a-rockin'
- What am I here for?
- Palm Springs jump
- Ra-da-da-da
- Main stem
- Bojangles
- Sleep
- Memories of you
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Blue skies
- Conversing in blue (with Benny Morton's All Stars)
- I can't get started (with Teddy Wilson Sextet)
- Time out for the blues (with Benny Carder and His All Stars)
- Danny boy (with Ben Webster's Quintet)
- Pennies from heaven (with Ben Webster Orchestra)
- Willow weep for me (with Ralph Burns Orchestra)
- My ideal (with Art Tatum-Ben Webster Quartet)
- Easy on the eye (with Red Norvo Sextet)
- Rosita
- Shine on harvest moon
- Please Mr. Webster (with Jimmy Witherspoon [and supporting musicians]).
- Participant:
- Ben Webster, tenor saxophone ; with Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra (1st-2nd works) ; with Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra (3rd-4th) ; with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra (6th, 8th, 10th) ; with Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (12th-14th, 16th, 20th-21st, 24th-25th) ; with Jack Teagarden's Big Eight (17th-19th) ; Slim Gaillard and His Flat Foot Floogie Boys (22nd-23rd) ; with Sidney Catlett Quartet (26th-27th) ; with Ben Webster Quartet (28th-29th) ; with Ben Webster-Coleman Hawkins [and supporting musicians] (38th-39th), and with other ensembles, in part with vocals.
- Notes:
- Recorded at various times between Dec. 13, 1932 and Jan. 1962.
- Biographical notes by Gus Matzorkis and program notes by John Chilton, with personnel and dates of recording (56 p. : ports. ; 23 cm.), notes on the recording of Star dust ([2] p.), and tinted portrait (1 leaf) inserted in inner container.
- OCLC:
- 8214597
- Publisher Number:
- STL-J21 Time-Life Records
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