Este é um dos duetos clássicos do jazz. Praticamente sem arranjos definidos, o melhor foi deixar Ben Webster, com o seu sopro de tom cavernoso, tocar um programa de temas intemporais. O pianista Oscar Peterson foi o parceiro ideal, o seu swing fluído acompanha o saxofone tenor de Webster numa sessão que é uma verdadeira aula de mestre sobre a balada de saxofone.

• Edição Limitada
• Duplo LP 45rpm em Vinil 200 Gramas
• Prensagem na QRP USA
• Masterizado por George Marino na Sterling Sound
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais

Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson brings together two of the greatest stylists American music has produced. Here, in a program of timeless songs, pianist Oscar Peterson is the perfect foil - his effortless swing an excellent set-up for the unhurried scoops, slurs, and bent notes of tenor saxophone balladeer Ben Webster - just the way he liked it.

"Another fine Webster release on Verve that sees the tenor great once again backed by the deluxe Oscar Peterson Trio. In keeping with the high standard of their Soulville collaboration of two years prior, Webster and the trio -- Peterson is joined by bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen -- use this 1959 date to conduct a clinic in ballad playing. And while Soulville certainly ranks as one of the tenor saxophonist's best discs, the Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson set gets even higher marks for its almost transcendent marriage of after-hours elegance and effortless mid-tempo swing -- none of Webster's boogie-woogie piano work to break up the mood here. Besides reinvigorating such lithe strollers as "Bye Bye Blackbird" (nice bass work by Brown here) and "This Can't Be Love," Webster and company achieve classic status for their interpretation of the Sinatra gem "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning." And to reassure Peterson fans worried about scant solo time for their hero, the pianist lays down a healthy number of extended runs, unobtrusively shadowing Webster's vaporous tone and supple phrasing along the way. Not only a definite first-disc choice for Webster newcomers, but one of the jazz legend's all-time great records." - Stephen Cook, All Music

Músicos:

Ben Webster, tenor saxophone
Oscar Peterson, piano
Ray Brown, bass
Ed Thigpen, drums

Lista de Faixas:

1. The Touch of Your Lips
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Bye Bye Blackbird
4. How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky)
5. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
6. Sunday
7. This Can't Be Love

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