TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Ben Webster
Ben Webster
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.0640
Ben Webster Album Rankings
1
The by turns grizzled and vaporous-toned Webster really hit his stride on the Verve label.
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2
Ben Webster and Associates is a 1959 session that took full advantage of the long-playing LP format.
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7
This ASV disc is tailor-made for Webster fans who started out on his popular Verve sides but want a chance to sample the early highlights.
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10
This 1953 date matched Webster with such peers as alto saxophonist Benny Carter, trumpeter Harry Edison, and pianist Oscar Peterson for a series of elegant yet soulful and exuberant small group dates
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18
Ben Webster's tone on tenor saxophone became one of the most recognizable in jazz; he possessed a tough sound on upbeat tunes while playing soft and light on ballads.
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20
The veteran tenor Ben Webster had a very warm tone on ballads that contrasted with the aggressive biting sound he used on faster material.
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29
Recorded early in tenor-saxophonist Ben Webster's long European period, this quartet set (reissued on a Black Lion CD) features Webster with piansit Kenny Drew, bassist Niels Pederson and drummer Ale
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30
Young Turk tenor saxophonist James Carter gets the nod to curate this Ben Webster edition of Verve's fine Ultimate series.
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31
Ben Webster's final American recording was one of his greatest. At 55, the tenor saxophonist was still very much in his prime but considered out of style in the U.S.
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34
This live set features tenor great Ben Webster playing with pianist Jimmy Rowles, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Frank Butler in a club and the music is consistently wonderful.
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35
World Saxophone Quartet Plays Duke Ellington' is doubly significant, as WSQ's American-label debut after a string of dazzling European imports and as the innovative big-band-saxophone-section-without-
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38
Ben Webster had a perfect tone for playing ballads, full of sentiment and emotion.
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42
This is the second of two Jazz Archives LPs that are comprised of rare Ben Webster performances.
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47
Ben Webster was one of the great swing-era saxophonists, a player whose tone was a bit rougher than that of his contemporaries Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins, but who shared with them a robust, bro
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51
Ben Webster was one of the great pre-bop tenor saxophonists, ranking just below Coleman Hawkins (his main influence) and Lester Young (with whose family band he had played early on) in importance.
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54
Released for the first time in 1995, this live performance from tenor saxophonist Ben Webster was recorded early during his years in Europe.
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61
What initially seems like an unlikely pairing for this session delivers on its unique pedigree with performances that do full justice to tenor legend Ben Webster and to the then up and coming pianist
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