Soulville

Infobox Album
Name = Soulville
Type = studio
Artist = Ben Webster


Released = 1957
Recorded = October 15 1957
Genre = Jazz
Length = 48:45
Label = Verve
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews = All Music Rating|5|5 [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0xfixq8gldte link]
Last album = "Trav'lin Light"
(1957)
This album = "Soulville"
(1957)
Next album = "Tenor Giants"
(1957)

"Soulville" is a 1957 album by swing tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, recording a session from October 15 1957 which Webster played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. This session is described by All Music as "one of the highlights" of Webster's "golden '50s run".allmusicguide |id = 10:0xfixq8gldte~T0] The album was reissued in the early 1990s on CD with three bonus tracks, which include rare recordings of Webster playing piano. [ [http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=disc&src=art&pid=10767 Soulville] Verve Music Group. Accessed September 18 2007.] When it was remastered in 24-bit for a 2003 edition, additional photographs and new liner notes were also included. [allmusicguide |id = 10:kpfuxq8aldae| label= Soulville (Bonus Tracks)]

Track listing

#"Soulville" (Ben Webster) – 8:03
#"Late Date" (Webster) – 7:13
#"Time on My Hands" (Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Vincent Youmans) – 4:16
#"Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 8:26
#"Where Are You?" (Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:41
#"Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:29
#"Ill Wind (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:30

Bonus tracks

#

"Who?" (Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 2:56
#"Boogie Woogie" (Webster) – 3:06
#"Roses of Picardy" (Frederick E. Weatherly, Hayden Wood) – 2:05

Personnel

Performance

*Ray Brown – bass
*Benny Carter – performer
*Herb Ellis – guitar
*Stan Levey – drums
*Oscar Peterson – piano
*Ben Webster – piano, saxophone: tenor

Production

*Norman Granz – producer
*Nat Hentoff – liner notes
*Ellie Hughes – design
*Tom Hughes – design
*Seth Rothstein – CD preparation
*Tom "Curly" Ruff – digital remastering
*Phil Schaap – liner notes
*Richard Seidel – CD preparation
*Phil Stern – photography

References