Webster, Ben -& His Quartet-
Wayfaring Webster (2lp)
Black Friday 2023 release. Tenor saxophonist Ben Webster needs little introduction. He is regarded as one of the three foremost swing era tenor saxophonists - the two others being Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. His ballad playing and sound inspired such later fellow saxophonists as Archie Shepp, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. The list of his collaborations is long; Ben Webster worked, recorded and played with legends from the likes of Art Tatum, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Roy Eldridge and Dexter Gordon. Despite excellent reviews of his albums, it was difficult for Webster to find steady work in the US during the early 1960's, while In Europe he found plenty of work, playing residences in Scandinavia, settled in Amsterdam (1966-69) and then in Copenhagen. On the album 'Wayfaring Webster', recorded in 1970 by the NPS Radio network in The Netherlands, here are high-quality Dutch sessions that were left dormant on a shelf and weren't commercially released for over 30 years. Comes as a deluxe 180 gram 2LP edition, strictly limited to 1000 copies and comes with obi strip.