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Ben Webster
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Sassofonisti · 1909–1973

Ben Webster

Sassofonista statunitense (1909–1973)

Nascita
27 marzo 1909
Kansas City
Morte
20 settembre 1973
Amsterdam
Paese
Stati Uniti
Etichette
Blue Note, Futura et Marge
Discografia
72 album

Biografia

Ben Webster è stato un musicista jazz (sassofono). Nato il 27 marzo 1909 a Kansas City, morto il 20 settembre 1973 a Amsterdam. Lo stile è di solito associato a jazz. Etichette: Blue Note e Futura et Marge. La discografia qui comprende 72 album, da «King of the Tenors» (1953) a «Lumiere Des Etoiles (Live Paris '72)» (2023).

Ben Webster, alla nascita Benjamin Francis Webster aka "the Brute" - "frog" (Kansas City, 27 marzo 1909 – Amsterdam, 20 settembre 1973), è stato un sassofonista statunitense. È stato, insieme a Coleman Hawkins e Lester Young, uno dei tre più importanti sassofonisti di estrazione swing. Il suo "modello" tra i due è soprattutto Hawkins, in particolare per l'uso dei registri bassi, del vibrato e della tecnica cosiddetta del growl. Webster però emette timbri più ampi e plasma un suono corposo e fremente piuttosto che roboante, animato da una sensuale sinuosità che egli contribuì ad associare in maniera quasi imprescindibile al sassofono.

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Discografia

Album in studio e dal vivo

King of the Tenors 1953 · Verve Music For Loving 1955 · Norgran Records Sophisticated Lady 1956 · Verve Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson 1959 · Verve Ben Webster and Associates 1959 · Verve Coleman Hawkins encounters Ben Webster 1959 · Verve The Soul of Ben Webster 1959 · Verve At the Renaissance 1960 · Live More (Theme From Mondo Cane) 1963 · Cameo Soulmates 1963 · Riverside See You at the Fair 1964 · impulse! Ben Webster Meets Don Byas 1968 · SABA At Ease 1969 · Ember Records For the Guv'nor 1969 · Columbia Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves 1971 · Polydor Autumn Leaves 1972 · Futura Records Ben at His Best 1972 · RCA Victor Live at the Haarlemse Jazzclub 1972 · Live · Cat Records Last Concert 1973 · Live · EMI Saturday Night at the Montmartre 1974 · Live · Black Lion Records Midnight at the Montmartre 1977 · Live · Intercord Sunday Morning at the Montmartre 1977 · Live · Black Lion Records Did You Call? 1978 · Nessa Records
No Fool, No Fun 1978
Big Ben Time 1983 · Philips Ballads and Blues 1985 · Jazz Life Days of Wine and Roses 1985 · Jazz Life Ben and “Sweets” 1987 · Columbia Stormy Weather 1988 · Black Lion Records Ben Webster Meets Bill Coleman 1989 · Black Lion Gone With the Wind 1989 · Live · Black Lion Live In Paris, 1972 1989 · France’s Concert My Romance 1989 · Jazz Hour Plays Duke Ellington 1989 · Storyville Records Live at Pio’s 1990 · Live · enja The Jeep Is Jumping 1990 · Black Lion There Is No Greater Love 1991 · Black Lion Records The Verve Years 1992 · Verve Live: Providence, Rhode Island, 1963 1994 · Live · Storyville Records The Horn 1994 · Progressive Records Jazz & Blues 1996 · Éditions Atlas Live at the Jazzhus Montmartre, Vol. 1 1996 · Live · Jazz Colours Live at the Jazzhus Montmartre, Vol. 2 1996 · Live · Jazz Colours The Warm Moods 1997 · Reprise Records Baden 1972 1998 · Live · TCB Records Ben Webster 1998 Cadillac Slim 2000 · Past Perfect Silver Line 1953: An Exceptional Encounter 2001 · Live · The Jazz Factory Ben & Teddy 2001 · Live · Sackville Cotton Tail 2001 · Past Perfect Silver Line At Montmartre 1965-1966 2003 · Live · Storyville Records At Ronnie Scott 1964 - The Punch 2005 · Live · Storyville Records Confirmation 2005 · Back Up The Quintet Studio Sessions 2006 · Lone Hill Jazz Soho Nights Vol. 1 2008 · Resteamed
Live In Hannover 2009
Live in Denmark 2009 · Live The Brute and The Beautiful 2009 · Storyville Records Gentle Ben 2011 · Discmedi Blau Live in Esslingen 1967 2011 · Jazz on Jazz The Complete 1960 Jazz Cellar Session 2011 · Solar Records Ben/Buck 2012 Soho Nights Vol. 2 2012 · Resteamed Groove the Complete Legendary 1961 Session 2014 · American Jazz Classics Plays Ballads 2017 · 2xHD Valentine's Day 1964 Live 2018 · Live · Dot Time Records Ben Webster's First Concert in Denmark 2019 · Live In Norway 2020 · Live Live at Kings and Queens 2022 · Live
Lumiere Des Etoiles (Live Paris '72) 2023 · Live
Ben Webster Live In Copenhagen · Live · High Definition Tape Transfers
Live in Vienna 1972 · Live

Suona anche in

Album in cui Ben Webster compare come sideman

1953 Big Jazz — Jack Teagarden / Rex Stewart tenor saxophone
1956 Blue Rose — Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra tenor saxophone
1957 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book — Ella Fitzgerald tenor saxophone
1957 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, Volume 2 — Ella Fitzgerald tenor saxophone
1957 Body and Soul — Billie Holiday tenor saxophone
1957 Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You — Harry Edison tenor saxophone
1958 Songs for Distingué Lovers — Billie Holiday tenor saxophone
1958 Legrand Jazz — Michel Legrand tenor saxophone
1958 Jazz Giant — Benny Carter tenor saxophone
1959 Side by Side — Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges tenor saxophone
1959 All or Nothing at All — Billie Holiday tenor saxophone
1959 Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster — Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster tenor saxophone
1960 Coleman Hawkins and Confrères — Coleman Hawkins tenor saxophone
1962 Sinatra and Swingin’ Brass — Frank Sinatra saxophone, woodwind
1962 BBB & Co. — Benny Carter with Ben Webster & Barney Bigard tenor saxophone
1962 Let's Cook! — Barney Kessel saxophone
1962 Roots — Jimmy Witherspoon feat. Ben Webster saxophone
1964 The Happy Horns of Clark Terry — Clark Terry tenor saxophone
1965 You Better Know It!!! — Lionel Hampton tenor saxophone
1965 More Blues and the Abstract Truth — Oliver Nelson tenor saxophone
1966 Soul Mates — Dizzy Gillespie & Roy Eldridge tenor saxophone
1966 Alto Blue — Johnny Hodges tenor saxophone
1974 52nd Street; Volume 2 — Coleman Hawkins, Nat Jaffe, Ben Webster & Don Byas tenor saxophone
1975 The Tatum Group Masterpieces — Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Red Callender & Bill Douglass tenor saxophone
1977 Carol & Ben — Carol Sloane, Ben Webster tenor saxophone
1987 Hine's Tune — Earl Hines tenor saxophone
1987 Just a Mood — Red Norvo tenor saxophone
1990 Jam Session — Charlie Parker tenor saxophone
1990 Small Combos 1937-1940 — Lionel Hampton tenor saxophone
1992 Hot Mallets, Volume 1 — Lionel Hampton tenor saxophone

Assoli analizzati di Ben Webster

Ha studiato con

Pete Johnson 1904–1967 · pianista statunitense Budd Johnson 1910–1984 · musicista statunitense (1910-1984)

Insegnante di

Jimmy Rowles 1918–1996 · pianista statunitense

Dischi storici a 78 giri

  • BLUE BELLES OF HARLEM BEN WEBSTER'S WAX QUINTET · BEN WEBSTER · BILL COLEMAN · JIMMY JONES… archive.org ↗
  • SOMEBODY LOVES ME Woody Herman and the V-DISC All Stars · Woody Herman · Billy Harris… archive.org ↗
  • ST. JAMES INFIRMARY JACK TEAGARDEN'S BIG EIGHT · Jack Teagardem · Rex Stewart · Barney… · 1940 archive.org ↗
  • Bugle Breaks Duke Ellington and His Orch. · Duke · Rex Stewart · Barney Bigard ·… · 1941 archive.org ↗
  • 1-2-3 Blues Sid Catlett Quartet · Ben Webster · Marlowe Morris · John Simmons ·… · 1944 archive.org ↗
  • Salt Peanuts Auld-Hawkins-Webster Saxtet · Coleman Hawkins · Ben Webster ·… · 1944 archive.org ↗
  • Broke But Happy Walter Thomas And His Jump Cats · Walter Thomas · Walter Thoms ·… · 1944 archive.org ↗
  • PORGY AULD-HAWKINS-WEBSTER SAXTET · Coleman Hawkins · Ben Webster ·… · 1944 archive.org ↗

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Domande frequenti

Che strumento suonava Ben Webster?

Ben Webster è noto per sassofono.

Quando e dove è nato Ben Webster?

Ben Webster è nato 27 marzo 1909 a Kansas City.

Quali sono gli album più noti di Ben Webster?

Nel nostro archivio ci sono, tra gli altri, King of the Tenors (1953), Music For Loving (1955), Sophisticated Lady (1956), Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (1959) e Ben Webster and Associates (1959).

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