Artist: Ben Webster
Album: Live! Providence, Rhode Island, 1963
Genre: Mainstream Jazz
Label: Storyville
Released: 1994
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Perdido (Ellington-Tizol) - 5:51
- Danny Boy (Trad.) - 4:40
- On Green Dolphin Street (Washington-Kaper) - 6:38
- Go Home (Mulligan-Webster) - 9:17
- Bye, Bye Blackbird (Henderson-Dixon) - 4:45
- Lover Come Back to Me (Romberg-Hammerstein) - 8:30
- My Romance (Rodgers-Hart) - 4:43
- Wee Dot (Johnson) - 2:07
- Tenderly (Gross-Lawrence) - 5:12
- Sometimes I'm Happy (Youmans-Caesar) - 5:56
- How Long Has This Been Going On (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 6:35
- Embraceable You (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 6:51
- The Theme (Davis) - 0:35
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- Personnel:
- Ben Webster - tenor saxophone
- Michael Renzi - piano
- Bob Petterutti - bass
- Joe Veletri - drums
This CD from the Danish label Storyville augments the earlier LP with a previously unreleased version of "Tenderly." Shortly before he permanently left the United States, veteran tenor saxophonist Ben Webster performed a concert in Providence, Rhode Island with pianist Mike Renzi, bassist Bob Petterutti and drummer Joe Valetri. The standards-oriented repertoire (only the Webster-Gerry Mulligan tune "Go Home" is obscure) was typical for a date by the tenor. The classic tenor sounds fine on such tunes as "Perdido," "Bye Bye Blackbird," "My Romance" and "How Long Has This Been Going On," roaring like a lion on the stomps and purring like a pussycat on the ballads.
Review by Scott Yanow