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  • Artist: Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2010
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 8436028694525
  • Item Number: DSFE694525
  • Release date: 01/19/2010
  • 1. The Touch of Your Lips
  • 2. When Your Lover Has Gone
  • 3. Bye Bye Blackbird
  • 4. How Deep Is the Ocean
  • 5. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
  • 6. Sunday
  • 7. This Can't Be Love
  • 8. Poutin'
  • 9. Cotton Taile
  • 10. Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
  • 11. Bounce Blues
  • 12. Bounce Blues [Alternate Take]
  • 13. Tenderly
  • 14. Ballad Medley: All the Things You Are/Dearly Beloved/The Nearness of Yo
  • 1. Soulville
  • 2. Late Date
  • 3. Time on My Hands
  • 4. Lover, Come Back to Me
  • 5. Where Are You?
  • 6. Makin' Whoopee
  • 7. Ill Wind
  • 8. That's All [Bonus Track]
  • 9. That's All [Alternate Take][Bonus Track]
  • 10. Pennies from Heaven [Bonus Track]
  • 11. Jive at Six [Bonus Track]
  • 12. Don't Get Around Much More [Bonus Track]
  • 13. Who [Bonus Track]
  • 14. Boogie Woogie [Bonus Track]
  • 15. Roses of Picardy [Bonus Track]
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Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson by Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson on CD


Another fine Webster release on Verve that sees the tenor great once again backed by the deluxe Oscar Peterson Trio. In keeping with the high standard of their Soulville collaboration of two years prior, Webster and the trio -- Peterson is joined by bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen -- use this 1959 date to conduct a clinic in ballad playing. And while Soulville certainly ranks as one of the tenor saxophonist's best discs, the Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson set gets even higher marks for its almost transcendent marriage of after-hours elegance and effortless mid-tempo swing -- none of Webster's boogie-woogie piano work to break up the mood here. Besides reinvigorating such lithe strollers as "Bye Bye Blackbird" (nice bass work by Brown here) and "This Can't Be Love," Webster and company achieve classic status for their interpretation of the Sinatra gem "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning." And to reassure Peterson fans worried about scant solo time for their hero, the pianist lays down a healthy number of extended runs, unobtrusively shadowing Webster's vaporous tone and supple phrasing along the way. Not only a definite first-disc choice for Webster newcomers, but one of the jazz legend's all-time great records. ~ Stephen Cook, Rovi
  • Artist: Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2010
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 8436028694525
  • Item Number: DSFE694525
  • Release date: 01/19/2010
  • Label: Essential Jazz
  • Genre: Vocal, Jazz
  • Style: Traditional Pop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
  • Album Time: 142:26

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  • Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson CD
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson CD