ART TATUM BEN WEBSTER QUARTET Verve '58 VG++/G
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You are bidding on a copy of The Art Tatum Ben Webster Quartet's 1958 self-titled LP on Verve (MGV-8220)
The record is clean with minor scuffing on both sides, deep groove, trumpet player label, light spindle wear: VG++ Jacket is in bad shape, 1/2 top split, small 1" center bottom split, water damage front and back: G
Review by William Ruhlmann on allmusic.com...
The only album-length collaboration between pianist Art Tatum and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster (accompanied by a rhythm section of Red Callender, bass, and Bill Douglass, drums) was this September 11, 1956, session under the auspices of Norman Granz's Verve Records label. (It was also Tatum's last recording session before his death.) Granz probably suggested the repertoire of standards by the likes of Kern and Hammerstein, Rodgers & Hart, and Cole Porter, but the melodies, of course, only provide a framework. On each track, Tatum leads things off, with Callender and Douglass coming in discreetly (and low in the mix). Then, at a certain point, Webster appears in the foreground, playing comparatively few notes and sticking much more to the melody than his partner. This is a good approach, since Tatum never subsides to simple comping; he just keeps soloing away under Webster's rich tenor tones until Webster stops playing, and then keeps on to the end. So, although this is billed as a group effort, it's not a group of equals or really one in which the players are cooperating with each other. Tatum might as well be playing solo, since he takes very little account of what's happening around him. Granz makes it work by varying the volume of the different instruments in the mix, and the result is a fascinating study in contrasts.
Tracks
Title Composer Time
1 All the Things You Are Hammerstein, Kern
2 My One and Only Love Mellin, Wood
3 My Ideal Chase, Robin, Whiting
4 Gone with the Wind Magidson, Wrubel
5 Have You Met Miss Jones? Hart, Rodgers
6 Night and Day Porter
7 Where or When Hart, Rodgers
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