BEN WEBSTER: THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS (BLUE SAXOPHONES / SOULVILLE / THE SOUL OF BEN WEBSTER) (2 CD)

AVID Jazz here presents three classic Ben Webster albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.“Blue Saxophones”…………Take the Oscar Peterson Trio with Alvin Stoller on drums, add two of the greatest tenor saxophonists who ever lived, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster and voila………you have Blue Saxophones! Two masters together in 1957, one (Hawkins) a huge influence on the other (Webster), but now,both very much their own men. As the final paragraph of Charles Fox’s liner notes attests “This is tenor playing in the grandest of manners, unashamedly romantic, even sensuous, with both musicians constructing their solos firmly and audaciously.” “Soulville”………Ben is once again joined by the Oscar Peterson Trio for another 1957 date. This time sitting in on drums is Stan Levey, in Bens own words “he’s improved since I heard him on the Street years ago.” Ben of course is a huge fan of Peterson…..”the guy can play a lot as a soloist but when it com