Artist: Ben Webster
Album: The Holland Sessions
Genre: Swing, Mainstream Jazz
Label: Blue Note
Released: 1997
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Benny's Tune (5:26)
- Once in a While (5:38)
- Ben's Blues (6:06)
- Sweet Lorraine (6:09)
- Hymn to Freedom (5:01)
- St. Louis Blues (5:50)
- I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good (6:14)
- Drop Me Off at Harlem (6:14)
- One for the Guv'nor (6:19)
- Prelude to a Kiss (7:20)
- In a Sentimental Mood (6:47)
- Rockin' in Rhythm (5:22)
- CD 2:
- Pennies from Heaven (10:09)
- I Got Rhythm (7:58)
- My Romance (8:12)
- Autumn Leaves (7:46)
- For All We Know (8:50)
- Sunday (6:01)
- Just You, Just Me (7:03)
- How High the Moon (7:03)
- Straight, No Chaser (9:34)
- Short Speech by Ben Webster (0:53)
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The title of this review should suggest 5 stars, but these are big Ben's last years, when the tone was still magnificent but the lungs could no longer delliver proper breath controll and the length... And the international trios playing with him are quite adequate but not more than that.
Even the 1st CD, containing recordings from 1969, have the sense of late Ben, not to speak of the 2nd CD, with songs from 1973, the year of his death.
He was still very good even in 1973 but, alas, no longer great. However, if you like Webster (like I do) you will not make a mistake if you buy it; in the end of the 2nd CD (and 3rd original album) old Ben, instead of an encore, tells the audience "You're young and growing, I'm old and going; have fun while you can!"... And of he went.
~ Nikica Gilic