Quando os gigantes do jazz Gerry Mulligan e Ben Webster colaboraram nesta sessão de 1959, fez-se história e um disco clássico intemporal. Desde a primeira até à última nota vai ouvir o que fez do jazz aquilo que é: comunicação e interacção. As melodias são elegantes e emocionais, levadas por uma secção rítmica com swing e bop na medida exacta.

• Edição Limitada
• Vinil 200 Gramas Audiófilo
• Prensagem Quality Record Pressings, QRP USA
• Acetatos processados por Gary Salstrom
• Corte a partir da Fita Analógica Original
• Masterizado por Ryan K. Smith na Sterling Sound
• Capa Deluxe tip-on Gatefold da Stoughton Printing

"In listening to Gerry Mulligan," Dave Brubeck once said,"you feel as if you're listening to the past, present, and future of jazz, all in one tune, and yet it's done with such taste and respect that you're not ever aware of a change in idom". The rhythm section for this date is uncommonly right for the Webster-Mulligan meeting. Rowles, Lewis, and Vinnegar all base their playing on a knowledge of 'the history of the language' they're using, and all three have secure, relaxed time. Furthermore, all three get solid, rounded sounds from their instruments..." - from liner notes by Nat Hentoff

"..... with music this good you need a break after each tune to regain your emotional composure." - HiFi Plus Magazine

Gerry Mulligan’s sessions with Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges and Paul Desmond belong in every well-stocked LP collection of jazz fans all over the globe. But if you happen to have missed out, then here’s the chance to buy a fantastic, top notch re-release and put the needle to the groove as fast as you can. From first to last, you will hear what made jazz what it is – from its beginnings around 1900 up to the present day: communication and interaction. Two highly sensitive, top calibre musicians – neither of them easy men to deal with – were invited into the Verve Studio towards the end of 1959. Here they prepared themselves well, practiced together, and devoted themselves to six numbers in a relaxed atmosphere of mutual respect where neither attempted to blast away the other. The numbers all come from the Duke Ellington Songbook and Gerry Mulligan’s own, and are a sure guarantee for the best of the best. It must be mentioned that one of the best rhythm groups of westcoast jazz – Jimmy Rowles, Leroy Vinegar and Mel Lewis – provide the amazingly sensitive background for these two giants of mainstream jazz. The excellent recording technique of the Verve Studio in Los Angeles ensures that even 50 years later every single note played on baritone and tenor saxophones is sheer pleasure.

Recording: November and December 1959 in Los Angeles
Production: Norman Granz

Músicos:

Gerry Mulligan, sax barítono
Ben Webster, sax tenor
Jimmy Rowles, piano
Leroy Vinnegar, contrabaixo
Mel Lewis, bateria

Lista de Faixas:

1. Chelsea Bridge
2. The Cat Walk
3. Sunday
4. Who's Got Rhythm
5. Tell Me When
6. Go Home

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