Music For Loving W/Strings

Product Details

Artist : Ben Webster with Strings
Format : Best of
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0731452777423
Label : Verve
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1995-08-09
UPC : 731452777423

ASIN : B000001EF3

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Chelsea Bridge
2. Willow Weep for Me
3. There Is No Greater Love
4. Teach Me Tonight
5. Until Tonight (Mauve)
6. We'll Be Together Again
7. Blue Moon
8. Early Autumn
9. My Greatest Mistake
10. What Am I Here For?
11. All Too Soon
12. Love Is Here to Stay
13. It Happens to Be Me
14. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
15. Prelude to a Kiss
16. Come Rain or Come Shine
17. Love Is Here to Stay [Alternate Take]
18. Love Is Here to Stay [Alternate Take]

Disc-2
1. Some Other Spring
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Stars Fell on Alabama
4. Under a Blanket of Blue
5. Stars Fell on Alabama [Alternate Take]
6. Under a Blanket of Blue [Alternate Take]
7. Under a Blanket of Blue [Alternate Take]
8. My Funny Valentine
9. You're Mine, You
10. Sophisticated Lady
11. Love's Away
12. Almost Like Being in Love
13. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
14. Take the "A" Train
15. We're in Love Again
16. Chalmeau
17. Moonlight on the Ganges
18. It Had to Be You
19. My Fantasy
20. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)

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Editorial Reviews

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Musicien accompli et friand de complicités (Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie), le saxophoniste Ben Webster, héraut du middle jazz, a consacré l'essentiel de sa carrière à la recherche de la belle mélodie (notamment sa collaboration exemplaire avec Coleman Hawkins). Cette recherche de la tendresse dans l'ultime note est mise à jour dans ce très bel album qui recense quelques superbes ballades "commises" par cet esthète. Un très beau recueil. --Eric Frank

Customer Reviews

The Best String Recordings -Brownie, Bird, and Ben (2003-09-06)

Ben Webster's mature 50's sax sound was magic with strings. The orchestrations and arrangements are tasteful (Strayhorn, Burns..pretty good company) While Brownie blew right through his arrangements, and Bird blew above and beyond his, Ben seems to blow right inside the arrangements written for him. He claimed that strings brought the best out of his playing, and who am I to argue. The first time I heard Webster play with unabashed romantic feel was on the Verve recording of an older Billie Holiday singing "Do Nothing 'Till You Hear From Me". His solo on that blew me away, as does his work here on "Chelsea Bridge". Almost every ballad he touches turns to pure melting gold on this great, new, expanded collection. As stated in the original liner notes by Bob Blumenthal - "Listen, but be forewarned - grown men and women have been known to cry".

Great album (2002-10-06)

Although sometimes there is a bit too much orchestra for my taste, Ben has never sounded better. This is an excellent introduction into Webster's great tone and voicing. Certainly superior to the long available Ben Webster With Strings. The sound is much better, the playing much better, and there is minimum schmaltz.

Music for Loving: Ben Webster with Strings (2002-09-12)

I guess the reason they don't rate Webster on quite the same level as Hawkins and Young is because he didn't become this great until the '50s when these sides were created. By that time the jazz critics' ratings had codified. You had Coleman Hawkins as the father of tenor sax, and Billie Holiday's alternative, the Prez, and everybody else on a level below them, not as great. Ben Webster wasn't supposed to keep getting better; he'd already been rated. Anyway, to commence--O the saxophone voicings on this album! The swoops and slurs and silences! The sheer beauty of the man's breath coming out both sides of the bottom of a note that isn't even there! Hrumf...gulp (pardon me while I shed a tear). But I swear to you this is very moving tenor sax. Don't let the fact that this is one of those albums "with strings" dissuade you. Billy Strayhorn and Ralph Burns swap chores as arranger/conductors, and there's some very tasty piano from Hank Jones, Teddy Wilson and Strayhorn. Give track 3) There is No Greater Love and track 5) Until Tonight a listen. I bet you'll be thanking me for it and buying yourself an early birthday present.

5 stars are not enough (2002-07-12)

Ben Webster sings through his saxphone, you can hear the lyrics transfer into notes and is even better than the original lines. Go get this, this is music of life.

Stunning master jazz (1999-07-25)

Combining two albums of Ben Webster w/strings with the only disk released under Harry Carney's name (also with strings), this is 2.5 hours of rare beauty. If you're a fan of Ben's Verve disks from the 50's, you already know what a great peak he hit as a ballad player in those years. He was THE perfect candidate for string treatment. Norman Granz used the best arrangers here (Strayhorn, Ralph Burns, Gerald Wilson) and the effect is stunning.

The Carney album will have you wondering why he didn't make more records under his own name. His ballad playing was, if anything, even stronger than Ben's. His version of It Had To Be You is the high point of the whole collection. There's a composition credited to Carney alone, which makes me wish we could hear more of his compositions, along with a Strayhorn I'm not familiar with and one credited to Strayhorn and Carney, all remarkably beautiful tunes. The two Duke standards receive completely fresh treatments.

This generous compilation is a tremendous revelation.

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