Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

Infobox Album
Name = Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
Type = studio
Artist = Gerry Mulligan


Released = 1959
Recorded = Nov 3 -Dec 2, 1959
Genre = Jazz
Length =
Label = Verve
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://wc08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvftxqrgldje~T1 link]
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://wc08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fcfpxqrgldse~T1 link] (1997 "Complete")
Last album = "The New Gerry Mulligan Quartet (May 19, 1959)"
(1959)
This album = "Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster"
(1959)
Next album = "Night Watch"
(1960)
Misc = Extra album cover 2 | Upper caption = "Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Complete)" | Type = Studio Album |
| Lower caption = 1997 expanded release

"Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster", also simply called "Meets Ben Webster", is a 1959 album featuring the November 3 - December 2 studio sessions of American jazz musicians Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster. In a 2003 review, "All That Jazz" described this album as the most notable example of Gerry Mulligan's work partnering other legendary figures of jazz. [Rickert, David. (October 9 2003). [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=646 New Verve LPRs: Klemmer, Getz, Giuffre, Hodges & Mulligan] All That Jazz website. Accessed November 18 2007.] The album, as a "classic album from two giants", is featured in NPR's "Basic Jazz Record Library". [Horwitz, Murray. (June 18 2005). [http://216.35.221.77/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4192977 Gerry Mulligan: 'Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster'] NPR. Accessed November 18 2007.] Originally released on the Verve label, the album was reissued by Verve, Mobile Fidelity and Polygram many times before being re-released in an expanded edition called "Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Complete)" by Verve in 1997.

1959 track listing

"Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Gerry Mulligan."
#"Chelsea Bridge" (Billy Strayhorn) – 7:22
#"The Cat Walk" (Mulligan, Ben Webster) – 5:47
#"Sunday" – 7:25
#"Who's Got Rhythm" – 7:42
#"Tell Me When" – 5:06
#"Go Home" (Chester Conn, Bennie Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) – 10:04

CD bonus tracks

#

  • "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 6:57
    #"What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) – 7:28
    #"For Bessie" (Webster) – 5:41
    #"Fajista" (Webster) – 5:50
    #"Blues in B Flat" – 7:22

    1997 "Complete" track listing"

    "Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Gerry Mulligan."
    #"In a Mellow Tone" (Ellington, Gabler) – 7:20
    #"In a Mellow Tone (alternate take)" (Ellington, Gabler) – 5:44
    #"What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) – 7:22
    #"Chelsea Bridge (original LP master take)" (Strayhorn) – 7:39
    #"Chelsea Bridge (alterate take)" (Strayhorn) – 5:03
    #"Go Home (alternate take)" – 10:01
    #"Go Home (original LP master take)" – 6:54
    #"Who's Got Rhythm? (original LP master take)" – 7:26
    #"For Bessie" (Webster) – 5:38
    #"Go Home" (Mulligan, Webster) – 1:44
    #"Go Home" (Mulligan, Webster) – 1:30
    #"Fajista (alternate take)" (Webster) – 1:34
    #"Fajista (alternate take)" (Webster) – 6:21
    #"Fajista (alternate take)" (Webster) – 1:37
    #"Fajista" (Webster) – 5:58
    #"Tell Me When" – 5:02
    #"Tell Me When (alternate take)" – 5:29
    #"Blues in B Flat (alternate take)" – 2:46
    #"Blues in B Flat" – 8:38
    #"Blues in B Flat (alternate take)" – 7:23
    #"The Catwalk (alternate take)" – 3:26
    #"The Catwalk (alternate take)" – 5:45
    #"The Catwalk (original LP master take)" – 2:13
    #"The Catwalk (alterate take)" – 6:19
    #"Sunday" (Conn, Krueger, Miller, Styne) – 5:32
    #"Sunday" (Conn, Krueger, Miller, Styne) – 7:21

    Personnel

    *Benny Carter - performer
    *Norman Granz - producer
    *Mel Lewis - drums
    *Gerry Mulligan - baritone saxophone, performer
    *Jimmy Rowles - piano
    *Phil Schaap - liner notes
    *Leroy Vinnegar - double bass
    *Ben Webster - tenor saxophone, performer

    References


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