Blue Skies
Ben Webster - CD
- Artist: Ben Webster
- Format: CD
- Year: 2008
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 8013252384523
- Item Number: FRUT523845
- Release date: 05/17/2005
- 1. Blues on the Delta
- 2. Cotton Tail
- 3. Blue Serge
- 4. Pick Up Boys
- 5. Just A-Settin' and A-Rockin'
- 6. Teezol
- 7. Blues Skies
- 8. Sleep
- 9. All Too Soon
- 10. Linger a While
- 11. The Horn
- 12. New Orleans
- 13. Body and Soul
- 14. Victory Stride
- 15. The Ghost of Dinah
- 16. Dream Lullaby
- 17. Sing You Sinners
- 18. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- 19. Stardust
- 20. With That Girl
- 21. Conga Brava
- 22. Easy to Love
- 23. 71
- 24. Hotter Than Hell
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Blue Skies by Ben Webster on CD
Ben Webster was never a particularly innovative or experimental tenor sax player, so he often gets overlooked when discussions turn to the greatest sax players of the 20th century, but he could do two things as well as anyone who ever picked up the instrument. He could blow rough and raspy and he could go sweet as fresh sugar on a ballad until one would swear the whole world was weeping. Webster didn't expand, deconstruct, and re-form melodies; he simply made them speak in a way that made the heart swell. This poorly annotated set has examples of both approaches recorded between 1934 and 1944, including the gently rolling "Blues on the Delta," a trademark romp on Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail," and gorgeous melodic turns on Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust." This same era has been covered many times on other Webster anthologies, so it's difficult to recommend this one simply because of its lack of track information, but the music itself is top-notch, swinging and sighing by turns. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi
- Artist: Ben Webster
- Format: CD
- Year: 2008
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 8013252384523
- Item Number: FRUT523845
- Release date: 05/17/2005
- Label: Fruit Tree
- Genre: Vocal, Jazz
- Style: Mainstream Jazz, Traditional Pop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
- Album Time: 78:35
- 100 Years
- 1944: The Horn
- 1946-1951
- A Salute to Ben Webster: 1936-1945
- At Montmartre 1965-1966
- At the Renaissance
- At the Renaissance [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- At the Renaissance [JVC Japan/AP Gold Edition]
- At the Renaissance [JVC Japan/AP Gold Edition]
- Atmosphere for Lovers and Theives
- Baden 1972 (Import)
- Ben & Teddy
- Ben and Buck [Sackville]
- Ben and Buck [Storyville]
- Ben and Sweets
- Ben and Sweets
- Ben and the Boys
- Ben Webster : Live At The Jazzhus Vol. 2
- Ben Webster [Membran]
- Ben Webster for Lovers
- Ben Webster with the Mike Renzi Trio
- Ben Webster's Finest Hour
- Big Ben
- Bounce Blues [Blue Moon]
- Centennial Celebration
- Complete 1943-1951 Small Group Recordings
- Complete 1953 Leader Studio Sessions
- Complete Quintet Studio Sessions
- Complete Sextet Studio Sessions
- Confluence
- Dig Ben!
- Evolution
- Gone with the Wind
- Jazz 'Round Midnight: Ben Webster
- Jazz After Hours
- King of the Tenors
- King of the Tenors (Import)
- Live at Ronnie Scott's 1964: The Punch
- Live At Stampen Stockholm 1969-73
- Live in Hannover
- Music for Loving
- My Man
- My Romance
- Plays Ballads
- Plays Ballads [Bonus Tracks]
- Plays Duke Ellington
- Plays Duke Ellington [Bonus Tracks]
- Quiet Now: Until Tonight
- See You at the Fair
- See You at the Fair
- See You at the Fair
- See You At the Fair
- Soulmates
- Soulmates
- Soulville
- Soulville
- Soulville (Import)
- Soulville [Bonus Tracks]
- Soulville [Bonus Tracks]
- Stompin' at Savoy
- Stormy Weather
- Story 1937-1944
- Storyville Ben Webster
- Tenderly
- The Alternative Takes: 1944
- The Best of Ben Webster 1931-1944
- The Frog
- The Soul of Ben Webster/Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You/Blues a Plenty
- The Warm Moods
- The Warm Moods (Import)
- There Is No Greater Love [1999 Reissue]
- Ultimate Ben Webster
- Verve Jazz Masters 43
- Warm and Mighty Ben
- Warm Moods [Collectables]
- Wayfaring Webster
- WEBSTER,BEN: BALLADS
- Zodiac Suite
- Composers:
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Credits:
- Adam Geibel - Composer
- Ben Webster - Composer
- Billy Strayhorn - Composer
- Carl Sigman - Composer
- Cole Porter - Composer
- Duke Ellington - Composer
- Earl Lebieg - Composer
- Edward Heyman - Composer
- Frank Eyton - Composer
- Harry Owens - Composer
- Harry Woods - Composer
- Hoagy Carmichael - Composer
- Irving Berlin - Composer
- Irving Mills - Composer
- Jack Little - Composer
- Johnny Green - Composer
- Joseph Young - Composer
- Juan Tizol - Composer
- Lee Gaines - Composer
- Leonard Feather - Composer
- Mercer Ellington - Composer
- Mitchell Parish - Composer
- Ray Henderson - Composer
- Robert Sour - Composer
- Vincent Rose - Composer
- W. Frank Harling - Composer
- Walter Donaldson - Composer
- Walter Thomas - Composer
