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	Ben Webster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young.
		Webster did a record (Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster) with fellow tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins on December 16, 1957, along with Oscar Peterson (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), and Alvin Stoller (drums).
		Ben Webster died in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1973 and was buried in the Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Webster (684 words)

	Ben Webster
		Ben Webster made his very first recordings with a member of the Calloway family.
		Ben did not record on Blanche's sides with with Louis, Ben recorded in Blanche's band of 1931-1935 called Blanche Calloway and her Joy Boys these bands also included furture greats as Cozy Cole, and Vic Dickenson and the arranger Edgar Battle.
		Benjamin Francis Webster was born in Kansas City, Missouri, March 27th 1909, and died in Amsterdam September 20th 1973.
	www.cabcalloway.cc /ben_webster.htm (475 words)

	CMT.com : Ben Webster : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Ben Webster was considered one of the "big three" of swing tenors along with Coleman Hawkins (his
		Webster spent time with quite a few orchestras in the 1930s (including Andy Kirk, Fletcher Henderson in 1934, Benny Carter, Willie Bryant, Cab Calloway, and the short-lived Teddy Wilson big band).
		Webster recorded a classic set with Art Tatum and generally worked steadily, but in 1964 he moved permanently to Copenhagen where he played when he pleased during his last decade.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/webster_ben/bio.jhtml (307 words)

	Gerry Mulligan by Craig Hanley - Ben Webster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Ben's solo swings with that naturalness of phrasing and totally unconstricted beat that for all the profusion of jazz record albums are still rather rare.
		Ben had a different attack than Hawkins, and what really made him stand out were the bend, the glissando, and the grand elements in his ballad playing.
		Ben Webster (1909-1973) was at first a pianist on the bustling jazz scene of his native Kansas City.He learned his first notes on the tenor saxophone at age twenty from Budd Johnson and Billy Young (Lester's father).
	www.gerrymulligan.info /m_webster_ben.html (6724 words)

	Ben Webster - The official Ben Webster website, edited by The Ben Webster Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
		Ben Webster has proved to be a true giant at the summit of the jazz star firmament.
		His recordings are sought after, not only by mature aficionados but also by a younger audience seeking the feeling and the special warm expression that Ben Webster communicated through his music.
		Ben Webster spent his last eight years in Copenhagen, and was buried here in 1973.
	www.benwebster.dk (133 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about Ben Webster
		Ben Webster, a great tenor saxophone player, dead since 1973, seems grander today than he did when he walked the Earth.
		Webster, the supreme interpreter of ballads, mastered the art of absorbing a song and making it his own without violating its essence.
		Webster was so good that the Ellington band of the early 1940s is now routinely called the Blanton-Webster band, after him and the great bass player, Jimmy Blanton.
	www.robertfulford.com /BenWebster.html (1002 words)

	CD Review of Ben Webster - Soulville on Verve @ jazzreview.com
		Ben Webster’s Soulville is notable for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that he is backed up with Oscar Peterson’s trio, plus Stan Levey on drums.
		Obviously, Webster never gained reputation as a jazz pianist, his genius on the saxophone vastly exceeding his talent on the piano.
		Soulville provides a reason to appreciate Ben Webster all the more as his instrument’s voice dominates each of the tracks, a lifetime of experience encapsulated in each of his interpretations of standards or his own rocking or blues-drenched compositions.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=4270 (506 words)

	Ben Webster / Oscar Peterson \| Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
		But Webster's tender treatments of “the pretty songs” are what he was best known for, and rightfully so, as his renditions are truly works of art.
		Webster's sound is a great deal like drinking high quality scotch or bourbon: as it slides smoothly down, it's warmth slowly and almost undetectedly takes over, enveloping you in its comfortable grasp until you are left reveling in it, hoping it will never leave you.
		Webster, he said, not only knew all the ballads, but was known for knowing all the lyrics to the songs as well.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=2412 (476 words)

	BEN WEBSTER / SOULVILLE
		I accidentally lucked into the music of Ben Webster while sifting through the "W" section of some dusty used record bin years ago.
		Their playing in support of Webster was incredibly sympathetic, with Peterson having the sense to reduce the quantity of notes he typically would put into his solos (with the exception of his snappy solo on "Late Date").
		At the time, I didn't know that Webster was considered one of the "Big Three" of swinging tenors (along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester "Prez" Young).
	www.musthear.com /reviews/soulville.html (411 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peters: Music: Ben Webster With Oscar Peterson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Ben Webster's tenor saxophone is one of the utterly distinctive and inimitable sounds in jazz and in 1959, when this set was recorded, it had reached its full breathy, melting ripeness.
		Ben Webster's playing on this recording is at the very highest level ever recorded.
		As the liner notes state, its not surprising that Webster captures this Sinatra classic perfectly given the fact that he'd probably listened to it hundreds of times before this recording was made.
	www.amazon.ca /Ben-Webster-Meets-Oscar-Peters/dp/B0000047D8 (1356 words)

	Mt. Everest 2005: Ben Webster and Shaunna
		Update 4/22/2005: Ben Webster has been airlifted to Kathmandu after breaking his leg in two places in the icefall.
		Also the expedition, which seems to be the news makers so far this year, found a letter from he 1960's from a mother to her son in the ice pinnacles.
		Ben, the expedition leader, is an experienced Canadian climber whose most recent Everest expedition was chronicled by The Discovery Channel.
	www.everestnews.com /everest2005/benwebstereverest2005u04302005.htm (880 words)

	Amazon.com: Soulville (Dig): Music: Ben Webster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The last three tracks feature Ben on the piano, his first instrument at an early age showing stride, boogie, and the type of stride which probably accompanied the pre-sound movies.
		Big Ben has played with so many greats and at the tender age of 50 kind of came into his own here...His blues and his sound is pretty unique and distinguishable and he is valued as one of the top of his genre..
		In 1939, Webster assumed the tenor solo chair with Duke, and over the years honed a smooth but throaty tone that raised his stature in New York jazz circles and, capping a lauded performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, finally brought him to the attention of executives at the Verve label.
	www.amazon.com /Soulville-Dig-Ben-Webster/dp/B000084I0H (1034 words)

	African American Registry: Ben Webster played a sultry Sax... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Webster’s approach combined blustery fundamentals and breathy sensuality.
		Conscious of the tide of jazz fashion, Ben Webster moved to Copenhagen in 1964 and it was here that his unpredictability began to form a body of legend.
		Webster’s late music had lost some of its passion and intensity.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/543/Ben_Webster_played_a_sultry_Sax (266 words)

	Ben Webster - Ben Webster Meets Don Byas - Verve Records
		The styles of Ben Webster and Don Byas provide a distinct contrast (though Byas was also a swing-influenced saxophonist, he was heavily into bop as well), yet they mesh very well together.
		Webster's turn in the solo spotlight is his own ballad "When Ash Meets Henry," in which he is accompanied only by Trunk 's well-chosen basslines.
		Sadly, this LP was a bit of a swan song for both tenor saxophonists; Byas died in the year prior to its 1973 release, while Webster died the following year, though he taped at least one more album following this one.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /product.aspx?pid=11558&ob=bf&src=vlt (294 words)

	Ben Webster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		For pure romantic intensity, the Ben Webster sessions that take up three-quarters of the two-CD set have rarely, if ever, been equaled.
		Webster seduces you with an insinuating, breathy tone, and he flirts with the melodies, decorating them with flattering embellishments and delicately squeezed notes.
		If Webster's greatest assets are his virile wit and hushed ardency, Carney's are an unfancy directness and boldness of tone.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/11-10-95/OfftheRecs/webster.html (209 words)

	Ben Webster - Verve Records
		Ben Webster is without question one of the music’s immortals.
		He did not originate a style or spearhead a period of radical change; but his magnetic tenor saxophone playing moved listeners as deeply as the work of any other artist on his or any other instrument.
		Intensity and honesty were the hallmarks of Webster’s music from his early days in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?aid=2791 (149 words)

	Amazon.com: Soulville: Music: Ben Webster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		It might not be Ben Webster's best LP (King of the Tenors, maybe?) or his best playing (1939/40 with the Ellington band), but this record has more grit and tender, loving SOUL than any album I've ever owned.
		Ben Webster was one of the most emotional tenor sax players in jazz, and his range of emotions was incredible.
		Webster's piano on the three bonus tracks is in a sort of sloppy stride and boogie-woogie style, entertainingly not serious.
	www.amazon.com /Soulville-Ben-Webster/dp/B000004765 (1233 words)

	Amazon.ca: Big Ben: Music: Ben Webster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		It traces the career of one of the great masters of the tenor saxophone from his unimpressive beginnings in 1931 to the marvellous years with Duke Ellington in the early 40s and the freelancing which followed, culminating in two sessions from 1951 which demonstrate Webster's incomparable ballad style in its full maturity.
		The third and fourth CDs follow Ben through the 40s as he recorded with big band leaders Woody Herman and Jay McShann, veterans including Hot Lips Page and Cozy Cole and boppers such as Dizzy Gillespie and Idrees Sulieman.
		Ben Webster's development into one of the undisputed masters of the tenor saxophone is depicted in this budget-price box set.
	www.amazon.ca /Big-Ben-Webster/dp/B0000630X9 (582 words)

	Artist page for Ben Webster - Wal-mart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Saxophonist Ben Webster first gained recognition as a featured soloist with the Benny Moten band in the early 1930s.
		Although he was with the band for only three years, he had enormous influence upon it, both through his presence, which galvanized his section-mates, and by his legacy.
		Thereafter, any new tenor saxophonist felt obliged to play like Webster until they were established enough to exert their own personalities.
	www.walmart.com /cdstore/ArtistInfo.do?artistId=1008 (600 words)

	Webster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Webster or Webber, a weaver (originally a female weaver); operator of looms in medieval/early modern England.
		Webster (referring to Noah Webster) is also (in North America) a common term for a dictionary — the Webster's Dictionary — to the point that the Merriam-Webster Company attempted unsuccessfully to defend it as a trademark.
		Webster pack, a disposable plastic and foil blister packet with medication doses for specific times and days preprepared for an individual by a pharmicist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Webster (322 words)

	Ben Webster
		Towards the end of Ben Webster’s very last concert in 1973, Ben asked Bob Rigter to play the blues on his instrument.
		So have your fun while you can.’ The next day Ben was taken to the St Lucas Hospital in Amsterdam, where he died on 20 September 1973.
		The recording was poor, but, because of its historical interest, issued on Last concert Ben Webster, EMI Bovema 1973, 5 C 178-24964/5.
	www.bobrigter.com /eng4ben.htm (363 words)

	Ben Webster: His Life and Music, Jan de Valk
		Best known for his ballads, Webster had the most personal and immediately identifiable sound in all the music.
		Charming and offending by turns (the latter linked to his fondness for the bottle), Webster was called 'The Brute and the Beautiful' and 'the Jekyll and Hyde of the tenor sax.'
		De Valk tells the whole story of Ben's life and times, beginning with his years as a piano player, his switch to saxophone in Kansas City bands, his glory years with the Duke, tours with Jazz at the Philharmonic, and years abroad playing with local and expatriate musicians.
	www.jazzscript.co.uk /books/webstervalk.htm (266 words)

	Ben Webster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		A consummate performer at any tempo, Webster's fast blues were powerful and exciting displays of the extrovert side of his nature, yet he was at his best with slow, languorous ballads, which he played with deeply introspective feeling and an often astonishing sensuality.
		This dichotomy in his playing style was reflected in his personality, which those who worked with him have described as veering between a Dr. Jekyll-like warmth and a Mr Hyde-ish ferocity.
		From his early work with Ellington, through the small group sides of the 40s, a remarkable set of ballad duets with Hawkins, to his late work in Europe, Webster's recorded legacy is irrefutable evidence that he was a true giant of jazz.
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=6773 (517 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Ben and Sweets - Ben Webster with Harry Edison - Product Details :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Ben Webster's silky smooth tenor is a perfect foil for Harry Edison's muted trumpet.
		Ben Webster and Sweets Edison in a small group setting that displays their absolute mastery of swing to perfection.
		Ben Webster plays ballads like no on else and Sweets Edison really sounds wonderful here especially on the bluesy "Kitty" (Track 3).
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-B0000026CC-locale-us.html (552 words)

	Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson - Ben Webster - Song Listings
		In keeping with the high standard of their Soulville collaboration of two years prior, Webster and the trio -- Peterson is joined by bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen -- use...
		In keeping with the high standard of their Soulville collaboration of two years prior, Webster and the trio -- Peterson is joined by bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen -- use this 1959 date to conduct a clinic in ballad playing.
		And while Soulville certainly ranks as one of the tenor saxophonist's best discs, the Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson set gets even higher marks for its almost transcendent marriage of after-hours elegance and effortless mid-tempo swing -- none of Webster's boogie-woogie piano work to break up the mood here.
	www.mp3.com /albums/115912/summary.html (378 words)

	YouTube - Chelsea Bridge Webster Ben 1959
		This was always one of Ben's greatest.Another equally elegant version was with Jimmy Rowles, Leroy Vinnegar, and Mel Lewis, 1959, Verve.That one was on a French video, the "Arte" series, which I saw on European TV in a hotel room in a provincial Hungarian town, Kalocsa.
		Ben Webster is featured in a recording o Ben Webster is featured in a recording of the Studio 61 series out of New York in 1959.
		Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909--September 20, 1973) was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=WQPfwDd3RiY (351 words)

	Ben Webster News
		News about Ben Webster continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Ben Webster, one of the three great tenor saxophonists of the swing era, managed to keep his career going well after the advent of be-bop.
		There's a proud line of them, starting with Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, continuing through Lester Young and Dexter Gordon, right down through the...
	www.topix.net /who/ben-webster (547 words)

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