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Artist: WEBSTER, BEN / OSCAR PETERSON
Title: The Legendary Sessions (2CD)
Label:
Essential Jazz Classics
Cat No:
EJC55452
Format:
CD
• All of the Ben Webster-Oscar Peterson quartet/quintet collaborations featuring Webster as the only horn player, for the first time ever on one double CD set.
• Included are the complete classic albums Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson (1959) and Soulville (1957). Also here are the quintet sessions originally issued on King Of The Tenors (recorded 1953; released in 1956).
• As a bonus, some Webster-Peterson collaborations in larger groups: a Ballad Medley from their first recorded session together, five septet tracks with Harry Edison & Benny Carter that complete the King Of The Tenors album, and three songs from the Soulville sessions with Webster at the piano.
• Personnel : Ben Webster, tenor sax and Oscar Peterson, piano, on all tracks plus: Ray Brown (b), Ed Thigpen (d), Herb Ellis (g), Stan Levey (d), Harry Sweets Edison (tpt) and Benny Carter (alt.sax).
• Total Time: 142:39 - 29 tracks - Includes 12-page booklet.
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