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Numbered, Limited Edition!
What a meeting! The King of Baritone and the Tenor Prince recorded in 1959, released on Verve. In the original liner notes Nat Hentoff quotes Dave Brubeck, 'In listening to Gerry Mulligan you feel as if you're listening to the past, present and future of jazz, all in one tune, and yet it's done with such taste and respect, that you're not ever aware of a change in idiom.' Hentoff comments, 'One of Ben Webster's more definitive solos while with Duke Ellington was in Billy Strayhorn's Chelsea Bridge. He begins this version with much the same tenderly retrospective mood with Mulligan providing a wave-like background.
'I doubt if any contemporary tenor saxophonist of any jazz 'style' can match the largeness of Ben's tone and feeling on ballads.' Now a well-loved classic, Hentoff correctly predicted '...the obvious likelihood that this one will be listened to as long as any one cares about jazz.'
Features:
• Mastered Directly from the Original Master Tapes!
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 200 Grams of High Definition Vinyl
• 1/2 Speed Mastered Original Master Recording Series
• Special Static Free-Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Gatefold Jacket
• Numbered, Limited Edition
Musicians:
Gerry Mulligan - baritone sax
Ben Webster - tenor sax
Jimmy Rowles - piano
Leroy Vinnegar - bass
Mel Lewis - drums
Selections:
1. Chelsea Bridge
2. The Cat Walk
3. Sunday
4. Who's Got Rhythm
5. Tell Me When
6. Go Home
7. In A Mellotone
8. What Is This Thing Called Love
9. For Bessie
10. Fajista
11. Blues In B Flat
Numbered, Limited Edition!
What a meeting! The King of Baritone and the Tenor Prince recorded in 1959, released on Verve. In the original liner notes Nat Hentoff quotes Dave Brubeck, 'In listening to Gerry Mulligan you feel as if you're listening to the past, present and future of jazz, all in one tune, and yet it's done with such taste and respect, that you're not ever aware of a change in idiom.' Hentoff comments, 'One of Ben Webster's more definitive solos while with Duke Ellington was in Billy Strayhorn's Chelsea Bridge. He begins this version with much the same tenderly retrospective mood with Mulligan providing a wave-like background.
'I doubt if any contemporary tenor saxophonist of any jazz 'style' can match the largeness of Ben's tone and feeling on ballads.' Now a well-loved classic, Hentoff correctly predicted '...the obvious likelihood that this one will be listened to as long as any one cares about jazz.'
Features:
• Mastered Directly from the Original Master Tapes!
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 200 Grams of High Definition Vinyl
• 1/2 Speed Mastered Original Master Recording Series
• Special Static Free-Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Gatefold Jacket
• Numbered, Limited Edition
Musicians:
Gerry Mulligan - baritone sax
Ben Webster - tenor sax
Jimmy Rowles - piano
Leroy Vinnegar - bass
Mel Lewis - drums
Selections:
1. Chelsea Bridge
2. The Cat Walk
3. Sunday
4. Who's Got Rhythm
5. Tell Me When
6. Go Home
7. In A Mellotone
8. What Is This Thing Called Love
9. For Bessie
10. Fajista
11. Blues In B Flat
