Ben Webster

Biography by Scott Yanow

Venerable tenor sax man, featured member of many legendary orchestras before solo career.
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Discography

Year	Album	Label	User Ratings
1950	Plays Music with Feeling	Norgran	()
1954	Sophisticated Lady	Verve	()
1954	Consummate Artistry of Ben Webster		()
1955	The Big Tenor		()
1955	Music with Feeling/Ben Webster with Strings	Verve	()
1955	Ballads	Essential Jazz / Essential Jazz Albums / Disconforme	()
1956	Art Tatum & Ben Webster Quartet	Palm Grove / Essential Jazz Classics / MSI Music Distribution	()
1956	King of the Tenors	Verve	()
1957	Bill Harris and Friends	Fantasy / Original Jazz Classics	()
1957	Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster	Verve / Polygram	()
1957	Soulville	PolyGram / Verve	()
1958	Not So Dukish	Verve	()
1958	At the Nuway Club (1958)	Jazz Guild	()
1959	Meets Gerry Mulligan	Verve	()
1959	Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster	Verve / Polygram	()
1959	Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson	Universal / Verve	()
1959	Ben Webster and Associates	Universal / Verve	()
1960	At the Renaissance	Contemporary / OJC	()
1960	The Soul of Ben Webster	The Verve Music Group	()
1961	Warm Moods	Warner Archives / Warner Bros.	()
1962	Ben & Sweets	Columbia	()
1962	Ben Webster and Sweets Edison	Columbia / ORG	()
1963	Live: Providence, Rhode Island, 1963	Storyville	()
1963	Live at Pio's	Enja	()
1963	Soulmates	OJC / Riverside	()
1963	Trav'lin Light	Milestone	()
1964	See You at the Fair	Impulse! / GRP	()
1965	Stormy Weather	Intuition Music / 1201 Music	()
1965	Gone with the Wind	1201 Music	()
1965	There Is No Greater Love	1201 Music / Black Lion	()
1965	Intimate!	Intermusic	()
1965	Duke's in Bed!	Black Lion	()
1965	In a Mellow Tone	Candid / Candid Productions	()
1965	The Jeep Is Jumping	Black Lion	()
1966	Blue Light	Polydor	()
1967	Meets Bill Coleman	Black Lion	()
1967	Swingin' in London	Black Lion	()
1967	Big Ben Time	Emarcy	()
1968	Meets Don Byas in the Black Forest		()
1969	Live in Amsterdam	Charly Records	()
1969	At Work in Europe	Prestige	()
1969	For the Guv'nor (Tribute to Duke Ellington)	Le Jazz	()
1969	Blow Ben Blow	Catfish	()
1970	Masters of Jazz, Vol. 5	Storyville	()
1970	Plays Ballads	Membran	()
1972	Live at the Haarlemse Jazzclub	Limetree Projects / Wim Wigt	()
1972	Makin' Whoopee	Spotlite	()
1972	Did You Call	Nessa	()
1972	Ben Meets Don Byas	Verve	()
1972	Gentle Ben	Acoustic / Acoustic Sounds	()
1972	Live in Paris, 1972	Charly Records	()
1973	Cafe: Sociëteit de Twee Spieghels	Bovema / EMI	()
1973	My Man	Steeplechase	()
1974	Atmosphere for Lovers and Theives	Pure Pleasure Records	()
197?	The Kid and the Brute	Verve	()
1993	Town Hall '45: The Zodiac Suite	Vintage Jazz Classics	()
1996	Black Lion Presents	Black Lion	()
2001	Ben & Teddy	Sackville	()
2003	Complete 1953 Leader Studio Sessions	Definitive	()
2005	Live at Ronnie Scott's 1964: The Punch	Storyville	()
2006	Wayfaring Webster	Daybreak / Challenge Records	()

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