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| | Ben Webster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Webster learned to play piano and violin at an early age, before learning to play the saxophone. | | | It is a beneficial Foundation, which channels Webster's annual royalties to musicians, both in Denmark and the U.S. An annual Ben Webster Prize is awarded to a young outstanding musician. | | | After three productive years of playing with Ellington, Webster left the band in an angry altercation, during which he cut up one of Ellington's suits. |
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| | Ben Webster |
| | Ben did not record on Blanche's sides with with Louis, Ben recorded in Blanche's band of 1931-1935 called Blanche Calloway and her Joy Boys these bands also included furture greats as Cozy Cole, and Vic Dickenson and the arranger Edgar Battle. | | | Here, one night, he met Budd Johnson, who showed him the scale of C on saxophone - Webster had been intrigued with Frankie Trumbauer's "Singin' the Blues" - and not long after he was playing saxophone in the Young Family Band (Lester Young and his father supplied more tips). | | | After Blanche, Ben spent the next several years touring with Granddad before moving to Granddad's great pal Duke Ellington's band in 1940. |
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http://www.cabcalloway.cc/ben_webster.htm
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| | CD Review of Ben Webster - Soulville on Verve @ jazzreview.com |
| | Ben Webster’s Soulville is notable for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that he is backed up with Oscar Peterson’s trio, plus Stan Levey on drums. | | | Another notable aspect of Soulville is that Webster, forever known as one of the greatest jazz saxophonists, plays piano on the last three tracks. | | | Indeed, Webster seems to lose the thread of the melody several times, stopping and starting over again in the space of a single measure. |
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http://www.jazzreview.com/cdreview.cfm?ID=4270
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| | 1201 Music Presents Webster, Ben - Gone With The Wind |
| | Listen for Ben's instructions to the rest of the band during the performance. | | | Perdido, by Ben's one time colleague Juan Tizol, is a reminder of the Ellington days; Webster takes this at a restrained pace and closes with the paraphrase which trumpeter Benny Harris devised and called Wahoo. | | | When Nat Pierce was touring Europe with the Buddy Tate band in the summer of 1970 he met Ben and asked him if he had ever recorded any piano solos. |
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http://www.1201music.com/album.cfm?sku=90202
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| | 1201 Music Presents Webster, Ben - There Is No Greater Love |
| | Ben fashions beautifully lyrical solos on songs such as I Got It Bad and What’s New, investing each with soft outlines in which the notes merge together like water colours coagulating on wet paper. | | | But perhaps the greatest single track on this collection and one of the best performances Ben taped in latter years - is the lovely Autumn Leaves which jogs along at thirty bars per minute and is therefore outside the “ballad tempo” class. | | | He even combed his grandmother’s hair!” Since he became domiciled in Europe the gentler side of his personality dominated his playing and when Alan Bates recorded this album in Copenhagen these balland tracks manifest an almost indecent amount of emotion and pure romanticism. |
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http://www.1201music.com/album.cfm?sku=90022
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| | BW |
| | Webster said Peterson was his all-time best accompanist; as for Oscar, he payed his tribute to Ben by citing his famous Cottontail solo (with Ellington) here and there, for instance on "Tribute To My Friends" (1983). | | | In my opinion Ben Webster´s best recordings are those made with Oscar Peterson in the late 50´s ("B.W. Meets O.P.", "Soulville"). | | | On "Soulville" there is a beautiful paraphrase of Sinatra´s recording a month earlier, "Where Are You"; "B.W. Meets" has an even more etheric version of "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning", which I strongly recommend. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peters: Music |
| | Ben Webster's tenor saxophone is one of the utterly distinctive and inimitable sounds in jazz and in 1959, when this set was recorded, it had reached its full breathy, melting ripeness. | | | An excellent introduction for anyone not familiar with jazz or Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson, as well as a marvelous addition to the experienced listener or musicians jazz library. | | | Look at the rest of these reviews and you have to conclude this is a necessity for your collection if you're a serious lover of mainstream jazz, the master saxwork of Ben Webster, or the equally excellent playing of the Oscar Peterson Trio. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000047D8
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| | Ben Webster recommendations? - Jazz Bulletin Board |
| | The sound on the original LP issue of this was wretched - some sort of new (at the time) digital mastering was used which destroyed Ben's sound and the sound of the music in general. | | | THE SOUL OF BEN WEBSTER 3 LP'S converted to 2CD'S 3 seperate duke ellington sidemen group recording session,all of which ben is involved with and is very good on,one he lead,the others are from sweets edison and johnny hodges, this package is well priced | | | I happened to find 2 Ben Webster albums lately in the second hand vinyl department ("Blue Light" and "Gerry Mulligan meets Ben Webster") and because his name rang a bell I bought them both... |
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http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=4415
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| | Ben Webster b |
| | After studying violin and piano, and beginning his professional career on the latter instrument, Webster took up the tenor saxophone around 1930. | | | After leaving Ellington, he led a small group for club and record dates and also played with several small groups led by artists such as Stuff Smith and Red Allen. | | | One of the acknowledged masters of the tenor saxophone, Webster made innumerable records, few of them below the highest of standards. |
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http://www.centrohd.com/biogra/w1/ben_webster_b.htm
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| | Ben Webster - The Soul Of Ben Webster - Verve Records |
| | Webster appears on Edison's album but does not play on all of Hodges'. | | | Personnel: Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Harold Ashby (tenor saxophone); Harry "Sweets" Edison, Art Farmer, Roy Eldridge (trumpet); Vic Dickenson (trombone); Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Jones, Billy Strayhorn (piano); Mundell Lowe, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis (guitar); Milt Hinton, Ray Brown, Jimmy Woode (bass); Dave Bailey, Alvin Stoller, Sam Woodyard (drums). | | | Ben Webster - The Soul Of Ben Webster - Verve Records |
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http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=disc&src=art&pid=9697
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| | Joe Williams featuring Ben Webster Havin' a Good Time |
| | Webster was in town on his own gig and apparently asked if he could sit in; I can only imagine that the band spent scant seconds in deliberation. | | | Williams had a fine band in tow, including drummer Mickey Roker, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and a consistently inspired Junior Mance on piano, for this date recorded on a cold night in Providence 43 years ago. | | | Personnel: Joe Williams: vocals; Junior Mance: piano; Mickey Roker: drums; Ben Webster: tenor saxophone; Bob Cranshaw: bass. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=18539
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| | Robert Fulford's column about Ben Webster |
| | He started his musical life as a teenager, playing piano for silent movies in Amarillo, Tex. He decided to try the saxophone, and when he got a job with Billy Young's touring band he borrowed an instrument and began learning it, practising with Billy's son Lester. | | | He gets little publicity, yet every time I enter a record store I find Webster CDs that are entirely new to me, most of them products of his last seven years, which he spent in Copenhagen and Amsterdam. | | | When he plays There Is No Greater Love or Don't Blame Me or My Romance, he loses himself in the song. |
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http://www.robertfulford.com/BenWebster.html
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| | Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster - Minta.us |
| | Gerry and Ben will be a great addition to your music library. | | | When this was recorded, however, the quintet was actually a working band. | | | This updated CD version includes a number of cuts that were not on the original album,including "In A Mellow Tone". |
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http://www.minta.us/60897102052517382378.html
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| | BEN WEBSTER / SOULVILLE |
| | I accidentally lucked into the music of Ben Webster while sifting through the "W" section of some dusty used record bin years ago. | | | I impulsively bought the disc, took it home, and a few days later got around to playing it. | | | For those who prefer to save some time, look no further than this album. |
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http://www.musthear.com/reviews/soulville.html
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| | NPR : Gerry Mulligan: 'Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster' |
| | A new and improved 1959 recording, Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster is on the Verve label. | | | HORWITZ: And, there's a punch line to this Basic Jazz Record Library entry: the CD reissue of this classic album includes five previously unissued tunes, including two Ben Webster compositions, a blues, and Duke Ellington's "In a Mellow Tone." Thank heaven for modern technology. | | | HORWITZ: Everything about these two men is complementary -- the sheer sound of Webster's tenor and Mulligan's baritone, their way with ballads, the deceptive ease of their hard swinging. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4192977&ft=1&f=4565717
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| | Ben & Sweets by Ben Webster/Edison : MusicOutfitter |
| | Full performer name: Ben Webster/Harry "Sweets" Edison.Personnel: Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet); Hank Jones (piano); George Duvivier (bass); Clarence Johnston (drums).The two jazz giants Ben Webster and Harry "Sweets" Edison had long wanted to record an album together, and in 1962, they did. | | | The ballads, enhanced by the wonderful harmonic sense of pianist Hank Jones, are the highlight of this release, and show both Webster and Sweets' unbeatable melodic sense. | | | On the album closer, Sweets plays a wonderful, even fairly modern sounding, rendition of "Embraceable You" using a Harmon mute. |
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http://www.musicoutfitter.com/store/item/074644085327/bensweets.html
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| | Ben Webster : The Warm Moods - Audio CDs - Collectables Records : Oldies.com |
| | A reissue of veteran tenor player Ben Webster's 1961 album, "The Warm Moods." On it, he is backed by Donn Trenner on piano, Don Bagley on bass, Frank Capp on drums, and a string quartet under the direction of Johnny Richards. | | | Ben Webster : The Warm Moods - Audio CDs - Collectables Records : Oldies.com | | | Click a song title to listen to a preview. |
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| | Buy.com - Big Ben - Ben Webster - CD |
| | Saxophonist Ben Webster first gained recognition as a featured soloist with the Benny Moten band in the early 1930s. | | | This boxset contains early recordings of Ben Webster as a member of the bands of Blanche Calloway, Bennie Moten, Teddy Wilson and Duke Ellington. | | | Buy.com - Big Ben - Ben Webster - CD My Account |
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http://www.buy.com/prod/Big_Ben/q/loc/109/60543023.html
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| | Jacintha - Here's to Ben: A Vocal Tribute to Ben Webster - Hybrid Stereo SACD |
| | The album will be Jacintha's first fully-fledged pure jazz album and the first to utilize what we feel is the marvelous potential of her voice in the jazz vocal category. | | | The album, Jacintha - Here's to Ben (Webster), represents an attempt by a new record label, GrooveNote, to produce, record and market in the USA and Europe, a well know singer from Asia, Jacintha. | | | Here's to Ben: A Vocal Tribute to Ben Webster |
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| | The Music Magazine - India's hit music e-zine |
| | They take in There is no greater love and Early autumn, on which a lush big band with strings offsets the tenor sax soloing, and others on which Webster sets his solo against a delicate piano -- as on Time after time and Ill wind. | | | It also features excellent guitar, piano and trumpet solos. | | | The Music Magazine - India's hit music e-zine |
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http://www.themusicmagazine.com/webster.html
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| | The Bebop Shop Ben Webster |
| | Ben Webster: Music For Loving (CD: Verve, 2 CDs) | | | Ben Webster: Complete 1943-1951 Small Group Recordings (CD: Definitive, 3 CDs) | | | Ben Webster: And The Modern Jazz Quartet: An Exceptional Encounter 1953 (CD: Jazz Factory) |
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http://www.thebebopshop.com/acatalog/The_Bebop_Shop_Ben_Webster_66.html
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| | NPR : Ben Webster: 'Ben Webster and Associates' |
| | MURRAY HORWTIZ, American Film Institute: Well there is what Dr. Billy Taylor calls "the great man theory of jazz history" and it does have its limitations, but certainly any Basic Jazz Record Library would have to have the sound of that tenor saxophonist in it. | | | Budd Johnson is also on tenor saxophone, and there is a great rhythm section which comprises Jimmy Jones on piano, Les Spann on guitar, Ray Brown on bass, and Jo Jones on drums. | | | HORWITZ: And it's, therefore, mid-career in Ben Webster's musical output. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4171829&sourceCode=RSS
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| | African American Registry: Ben Webster played a sultry Sax... |
| | From Kansas City, Webster put down the violin at an early age. | | | He left Ellington because one night he had been allowed to play piano with the band and stayed too long on the keyboard. | | | Webster’s late music had lost some of its passion and intensity. |
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http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/543/Ben_Webster_played_a_sultry_Sax
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| | Ben Webster - At The Renaissance - 45 RPM Vinyl |
| | A bright spot for Webster was that when he worked, it was often with the splendid band in this album. | | | Ben Webster - At The Renaissance - 45 RPM Vinyl | | | For Ben Webster, his Los Angeles years of the late 1950's and early 1960's held massive frustration that was relieved by only a few high points. |
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http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?title_ID=430
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| | Mt. Everest 2005: Ben Webster and Shaunna Update |
| | Update: It sounds as if Ben's surgery went well and Shaunna has made it back up to Camp 2... | | | Update 5/05/2005: Shaunna has made it back up to camp 2 and back down to base camp and seems to be doing well. | | | The students will be placed virtually in the back pack of Ben Webster and take them to the mountain. |
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http://www.everestnews.com/everest2005/benwebstereverest2005u05272005.htm
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| | Index to Comic Art Collection: "Belmont" to "Ben Webster" |
| | Call no.: PN6707.G39 1997 ----------------------------------------------------- Ben Radis (Rémi Bernardi), 1956- --Miscellanea. | | | -- Call no.: PN6728.1.P3T7no.49 ----------------------------------------------------- "Ben Oda Remembered" / by Andrew Helfer. | | | -- Call no.: PN6707.B76 1986 ----------------------------------------------------- Ben Radis (Rémi Bernardi), 1956- --Miscellanea. |
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http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/brri/belmont.htm
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| | You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To by Ben Webster: Reviews |
| | Ben Webster : Albums : Masters of Jazz, Vol. | | | Buy the CD Check for lowest CD prices from virtually everywhere online. | | | This entry in Storyville's Masters of Jazz series (which does not duplicate his Plays Duke Ellington and Plays Ballads albums) alternates ballads and stomps to give listeners a well-rounded picture of Ben Webster during his last period. |
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http://www.mp3.com/tracks/360930/reviews.html
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| | Classic Records Catalog / V-6066 |
| | "Just call them," Ben said after a short pause, "Ben Webster and his pros." On this album, two of the most total pros in jazz meet for longer extended conversations than they have ever before recorded. | | | Hawkins takes the first solo on all the performances except for It Never Entered My Mind and You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To. | | | Coleman Hawkins, as is his wont, had very little to say about this session, about music, about Ben. |
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http://www.classicrecs.com/V-6066.htm
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| | BEN WEBSTER and ASSOCIATES - BEN WEBSTER and ASSOCIATES |
| | Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Budd Johnson, the three tenor saxophone heaveyweights who joined forces for the first time to produce this unique album, ann have interwoven histories that go back three decades. | | | NOTE: On factory reel - With Label - Recorded in New York City April 9, 1959 | | | BEN WEBSTER and ASSOCIATES - BEN WEBSTER and ASSOCIATES |
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| | Jazzscript.co.uk - BEN WEBSTER : LIFELINE |
| | Webster joins Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City, and becomes a main soloist. | | | Webster becomes a jobbing musician, occassionally leading his own group. | | | Webster came to his own style of playing relatively late, and only when he was playing with |
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http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/life/websterlife.htm
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| | Ben Webster MP3 Downloads - Ben Webster Music Downloads - Ben Webster Music Videos |
| | Ben Webster MP3 Downloads - Ben Webster Music Downloads - Ben Webster Music Videos | | | The tunes generally keep to mid-tempos, a pace that affords Webster the opportunity to wield the gentler side of his legendary sound. | | | Portions of content provided by All Music Guide © 2005 AEC One Stop Group, Inc. |
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http://www.mp3.com/albums/118346/summary.html
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| | Ben Webster - The Brute and the Beautiful |
| | Follow the steps below (come back to this page to check your progress): | | | Sections for Ben Webster - The Brute and the Beautiful | | | Pierce Brosnan plays an aging hitman who needs a little help doing his latest assignment. |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ben_webster_the_brute_and_the_beautiful
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| | Ben Webster: His Life and Music, Jan de Valk |
| | De Valk tells the whole story of Ben's life and times, beginning with his years as a piano player, his switch to saxophone in Kansas City bands, his glory years with the Duke, tours with Jazz at the Philharmonic, and years abroad playing with local and expatriate musicians. | | | Best known for his ballads, Webster had the most personal and immediately identifiable sound in all the music. | | | Ben Webster: His Life and Music, Jan de Valk |
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http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/books/webstervalk.htm
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| | Ben Webster |
| | With rare exceptions, jazz/strings albums smother a good jazz-ballad player under a treacly orchestral coating. | | | Webster seduces you with an insinuating, breathy tone, and he flirts with the melodies, decorating them with flattering embellishments and delicately squeezed notes. | | | On "We're in Love Again" and "Moonlight on the Ganges," Carney's power and fullness of sound and his modest, graceful solos are as seductive in their own way as Webster's. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/music/reviews/11-10-95/OfftheRecs/webster.html
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| | Barney Bigard |
| | Webster retained some of the Hawkins'inspired brusqueness and bluster, but combined it with a dose of Hodges' lyricism. | | | Even though Webster spent only a few years with Ellington, he influenced the Ellington band permanently because the tenor players who came later, specifically Paul Gonsalves and Harold Ashby, developed styles that were much indebted to Webster. | | | Early Ben Webster sounds a lot like Coleman Hawkins, but after joining Ellington, Webster came under the influence of Johnny Hodges and his style mellowed. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~atteberr/jazz/artists/ellington/people/webster.html
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| | Ben Webster - Verve Records |
| | Intensity and honesty were the hallmarks of Webster’s music from his early days in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. | | | He did not originate a style or spearhead a period of radical change; but his magnetic tenor saxophone playing moved listeners as deeply as the work of any other artist on his or any other instrument. | | | Ben Webster is without question one of the music’s immortals. |
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http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist.aspx?aid=2791
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| | Frank Büchmann-Møller: Someone to Watch Over Me, University of Michigan Press |
| | Exhaustively researched, this is a much needed and long overdue study of the life and music of one of jazz's most important artists. | | | In addition, the author studies every known Webster recording and film, including many private recordings from Webster's home collection not available to the public. | | | Early in his career, Webster worked with many of the greatest orchestras of the time, including those led by Willie Bryant, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Fletcher Henderson, Andy Kirk, Bennie Moten, and Teddy Wilson. |
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| | Online Chat: Apr 13, 2005 - Ben Webster & Ottawa Schools Expedition Everest OCDSB |
| | Ben Webster: Well, that's about it everyone, it is still in the early days, so keep tuned in as it gets better, the next two or three weeks get very exciting and we will know how serious everyone is. Take care everyone and keep watching for the videos and audio logs. | | | Q: Hi Ben, are there female Sherpa climbers? | | | A: No, I am not a practicing Buddhist, spiritually, I only feel the power of the mountain, no different than any other time I go into the mountains, I don't believe that Everest is a god, not like the Sherpas who do believe that Everest is a god. |
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http://www.everest.ocdsb.ca/updates_apr13chat.htm
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| | Making Memories Ben Webster |
| | Ben, who was raised on a farm in Rexburg, Idaho, says that outside of his family, his other pride-and-joy is a 100-year old printing press. | | | And he secretly dreams to someday show off his creative driving skills on a NASCAR track. | | | But he's not afraid to admit he's created some fun projects for his beautiful 2 1/2 and 1-year old daughters to enjoy. |
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http://www.makingmemories.com/about/ben.cfm
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| | Mt Everest 2004: Canadian Ben Webster returns again |
| | Webster and other climbers on the expedition will use March Networks’ portable, Bluetooth®-enabled telehealth equipment to record and track vital sign data in a completely paperless system. | | | Webster is making this climb as part of a television documentary for the Discovery Channel, entitled “The Everest Story” and is using the telehealth technology to better monitor his team’s health as they push their physical limits in extreme conditions during the trek. | | | Mt Everest 2004: Canadian Ben Webster returns again |
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| | Ben Webster on Msn Music |
| | Ben Webster Fan Favorites Radio (Exclusive to Radio Plus - try it free today) |
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| | Ben Webster |
| | A published photojournalist and TV producer to boot, Ben is able to create, execute and manifest an idea into reality. | | | One of the most highly-motivated people you could ever meet, Ben couples superior leadership abilities with elite technical outdoor skills. | | | Ben has led numerous climbing expeditions on mountains around the world, either commercially or on assignment. |
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http://www.steponline.com/everest/ben_webster.asp
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| | Amazon.com: Frog: 1956-1962: Music: Ben Webster |
| | This disk is a compilation of select cuts from three other CDs: "Webster Meets Peterson" (6 of 7), "The Tatum Group Masterpieces" (4 of 10) and "Ben And Sweets" (2 of 6). | | | An insult to Ben Webster, August 21, 2004 |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000AFB1?v=glance
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| | eBay - webster all products at low prices |
| | Forbes March, John Shea, Lauren Lee Smith, Victor Webster, Victoria Pratt | | | 158 matches found for 'webster' in All Products | | | eBay - webster all products at low prices |
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| | Rolling Stone : Ben Webster : Discography |
| | Home : artists : Ben Webster : Discography | | | See all available RSS feeds / learn more | | | Enter to win a trip to Mardi Gras |
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