Note:
This CD has been replaced by its recent reissue as part of the Essential Jazz Classics label. Reference #EJC55588
A great new CD which features the complete album "Ben & Sweets" plus, as a bonus, all the tracks with solos by Ben Webster from a very rare LP released under the name of Mundell Lowe, of compostions from Gershwin's classic "Porgy & Bess".
Tracklisting:
01. Better go
02. How long has this been going on?
03. Kitty
04. My romance
05. Did you call her today?
06. Embraceable you
07. Summertime*
08. Bess, you is my woman*
09. I got plenty of nothing*
10. My man's gone now*
Total Time: 57:00 min
Tracks #1-6, from the album
"Ben & Sweets, Wanted To Do One Together"
(Columbia, CS 8691)
(*) Bonus tracks not on the original album
Personnel & recording dates:
Tracks #1-6: Ben Webster (ts), Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp), Hank Jones (p), George Duvivier (b) & Clarence Johnson (d).
Recorded in New York, June 6 (#3,5,6) & June 7 (#1,2,4), 1962
Bonus tracks #7-10:
Mundell Lowe Septet featuring Ben Webster
(RCA-Victor LP, 1958)
Ben Webster (ts), Art Farmer (tp), Don Elliott (vib), Tony Scott (cl, bs), Mundell Lowe (g), George Duvivier (b) Osie Johnson (d).
Recorded in New York, July 16 & 17, 1958
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