The Ben Webster Quintet Soulville 2LP 45rpm 200g Audiophile Vinyl Analogue Productions QRP USA
Title: Soulville
Catalog Number: AP-8274
Label: Verve
Reissued by: Analogue Productions
Barcode: 753088827419
Original release year: 1957
Reissue year: 2013
Number of discs: 2
Revolutions per minute: 45 rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 200gr
Limited Edition: Yes
Total Item Weight: 563gr
Pressing country: USA
For Market Release in: USA
Added to catalog on: April 26, 2014
Collection: Analogue Productions Verve Series
Note: Never eligible for any further discounts
Vinyl Gourmet Club: Yes
Soulville is quintessential Ben Webster: intimate, tender, endlessly expressive. Hear Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis and Ben Webster's Sax floating in space in your listening room with this new audiophile remaster from George Marino at Sterling Sound using the Original Master Tapes and pressed on 45rpm high quality virgin vinyl at QRP for a trully immersive experience.
- Limited Edition
- Double LP 45rpm on 200 grams Vinyl
- Pressed at QRP USA
- Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound
- Cut from the Absolute Original Analog Mono Master Tapes
Ben Webster, wrote the jazz historian J. E. Behrend, "was two men in one; in fast pieces he was a musician with a throaty croaking vibrato, while in slow ones he was a master of erotic and intensive ballads." In this compilation of both his own works and standard numbers with the promising title of Soulville, "Big Ben" shows the gentle and the rougher sides of his nature. No session in which black jazz musicians take part would be worth its salt without a good and honest opening blues number, as the first two tracks on this LP show.
Soulville is quintessential Ben Webster: intimate, tender, endlessly expressive. Webster was internationally recognized as one of jazz's elder statesman when he recorded this album in 1957, but the youthful fire that had marked his playing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra two decades earlier was undiminished. Leading a stellar combo through a program consisting mostly of vintage pop tunes, the great tenor saxophonist is at his peak. And this reissue includes three rare recordings of Webster on piano, the first instrument he played as a young professional musician.
Musicians:
Ben Webster, tenor saxophone
Ray Brown, bass
Herb Ellis, guitar
Stan Levey, drums
Oscar Peterson, piano
Track Listing:
1. Soulville
2. Late Date
3. Time on my Hands
4. Lover Come Back to Me
5. Where Are You
6. Makin' Whoopee
7. Ill Wind
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