The Art Tatum-Ben Webster Quartet

20-PAGE BOOKLET EDITION

INCLUDES 7 BONUS TRACKS

5 STARS DOWNBEAT

INCLUDES NEW SPECIALLY PREPARED LINER NOTES BY PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ'S WRITER BRIAN MORTON AND BY PARIS'S PRESTIGIOUS JAZZ MAGAZINE

“Neither man-made serious concessions to the other. The most effective analogy might be watching a stately ship move slowly over a boisteroussea. Webster’s imperious balladry was his main stock-in-trade, and we forget that he had a considerable facility at faster tempos, and even managed to preserve that distinctive just-woke-up tone. Tatum eats up the tunes, leaving little for Red Callender and Bill Douglass to do, though the bassman in particular makes the best possible use of his moments of freedom.” - PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

“It would be hard to find two musicians born in the same year with so different a sound from each other as Art Tatum and Ben Webster. The former, considered one of the few authentic geniuses of jazz piano, is best known for being a virtuoso soloist of outstanding precision. The latter is among the most celebrated sax players in jazz history, especially for having been a member of Duke Ellington’s great orchestra. It wasn’t in an attempt to erase these differences that producer Norman Granz decided to record them together on this, their only quartet album.” - JAZZ MAGAZINE

PERSONNEL:

Art Tatum - piano
Ben Webster - tenor sax
Red Callender - bass
Bill Douglass - drums

Los Angeles, California, September 11, 1956.

TRACKS:

01. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE
02. MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE
03. MY IDEAL
04. GONE WITH THE WIND
05. HAVE YOU MET MISS JONES?
06. NIGHT AND DAY
07. WHERE OR WHEN
08. IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD (*)
09. I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO CHANGE MY PLANS (*)
10. STREET OF DREAMS (*)
11. DEEP NIGHT (*)
12. I’LL NEVER BE THE SAME (*)
13. MOON SONG (*)
14. UNDER BLANKET OF BLUE (*)

TOTAL TIME: 77:59 Min.

(*) BONUS TRACKS