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Ben Webster Gentle Ben 45RPM, 200g Vinyl Edition

Analogue Productions | Item No: 508003
Vinyl 2LP | 2016 / US – Original | New
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»The soundstage is intimate and inviting, Webster's horn beautifully captured with sweet, rich overtornes, the bass liquid, chugging, and textured, piano and drums easy and natural. As with each title, the music emerges from QRP's beautifully flat and wonderfully silent surfaces with that much more 'there-ness'.« Sonics = 4/5; Music = 3.5/5 — Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, January 2013
»...Webster's trademark sensual sound is on full display and, of course, he's backed by Montoliu, an outstanding Spanish piano veteran who accompanied all the great jazz artists passing through Europe ...This is one of the first releases by Analogue Productions pressed at their new in-house pressing plant Quality Record Pressings, and the record bears a close resemblance in appearance to records from Pallas - beautiful looking and perfectly quiet ... The superb 200-gram LP comes in a rice paper sleeve and jacket of heavy cardboard ... Highest Recommendation.« Recording = 10/10; Music = 8.5/10 — Dennis D. Davis, Hi-Fi+, Issue 81
This recording was made 10 months before Ben Webster's death in 1972. Webster, who had left the United States in 1965 to settle in Europe — first in Copenhagen and then in Amsterdam — was visiting fellow musician and friend Tete Montoliu in Barcelona. Webster and pianist Montoliu went back a ways, having played together regularly in Webster's Copenhagen days. In fact, Montoliu cited Webster and Don Byas as his two chief musical influences. Webster and Montoliu understood each other deeply, and their comfort with on another is palpable in this recording. Their accompaniment of one another is seamless. On board with these two is Montoliu's regular working trio-mates, Eric Peter on bass and Peer Wyboris on drums.
There's no shortage of Webster's trademark breathy, fat tenor tone here. In fact, given the sparse arrangement, that rich, humid, giant sax blooms like on few other recordings. Highlights include "Ben's Blues", "Sweet Georgia Brown", "The Man I Love" and "Don't Blame Me".
Item Details
Item No: 508003
Artist: Ben Webster
Title: Gentle Ben 45RPM, 200g Vinyl Edition
Label: Analogue Productions
Catalog No: AS AAPJ 040-45
Format: Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: US – Original
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Organic Grooves
Style: Jazz | Fusion
Available since: 2016-12-28
Condition: New
Price: $ 67.22 $ 60.50
Weight: 500g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Ben's Blues
A2 The Man I Love
B1 My Nephew Bent
B2 How Long Has This Been Going On
C1 Sweet Georgia Brown
C2 Don't Blame Me
D1 Did You Call
D2 Barcelona Shout
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