Jazz
Tracks #1-6:
Recorded: October 16, 1957, Los Angeles
Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster (ts), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b) and Alvin Stoller (d)
Tracks #13 & 15:
Same personnel, place and date but omit Ben Webster.
Tracks #14 & 16:
Recorded: October 15, 1957
Same personnel and place but omit Coleman Hawkins and Stan Levey replaces Alvin Stoller.
This release contains the complete classic album "Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster", as well as the other six tunes from the session, originally issued on different Hawkins’ albums and long out-of-print anthologies.
As a further bonus, it is added four tunes from sessions recorded on both the previous and the same day by each saxophonist alone with the same rhythm section. The sessions end with each player presenting his own reading of “Ill Wind”.
Tracks #1-7 originally issued as Verve MGV 8327.
These aren't encounters in the confrontational sense, but a merger of great musical minds.
---Ron Wynn -All Music Guide |
