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

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"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