Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957) (eac-flac-cover)

Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)

jazz | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 270MB

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Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster first met at a Kansas City jam session at which Hawkins finally encountered his match in local tenors Webster, Herschel Evans, and Lester Young. The all-night meeting has become the stuff of legend (and a continuous thread in Robert Altman's film Kansas City, though there it's reduced to two tenors). Recorded by Norman Granz, this 1957 meeting supports the two with fine accompaniment that includes Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and Herb Ellis. The material includes the great "Blues for Yolanda," with a honking, squeaking solo that suggests Hawkins is the father of all R&B tenor saxophonists as well as those in jazz, while "Rosalita" has an engaging Latin beat. There's also plenty of room for the two to display their ballad art, but there's no real competition between the two big-toned, gruff tenorists, each a mature artist enjoying the highest challenge a peer might offer.

Tracks
1.# "Blues for Yolande" (Hawkins) – 6:44
2 # "It Never Entered My Mind" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:47
3 # "La Rosita" (Paul Dupont, Allan Stuart) – 5:02
4 # "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 4:15
5 # "Prisoner of Love" (Russ Columbo, Clarence Gaskill, Leo Robin) – 4:13
6 # "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 5:21
7 # "Shine On, Harvest Moon" (Jack Norworth, Nora Bayes) – 4:4
8 # "Blues for Yolande" (alt) - 6:52
9 # "Blues for Yolande" (alt2) - 4:49

Personnel
* Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
* Ben Webster
* Oscar Peterson – piano
* Herb Ellis – guitar
* Ray Brown – double bass
* Alvin Stoller – drums

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