Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

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Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster cover
Studio album by Gerry Mulligan
Released 1959
Recorded Nov 3 -Dec 2, 1959
Genre Jazz
Label Verve
Professional reviews
Gerry Mulligan chronology
The New Gerry Mulligan Quartet (May 19, 1959)
(1959)		 Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
(1959)		 Night Watch
(1960)
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Complete)
1997 expanded release
1997 expanded release

Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, also simply called Meets Ben Webster, is a 1959 album featuring the November 3 - December 2 studio sessions of American jazz musicians Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster. In a 2003 review, All That Jazz described this album as the most notable example of Gerry Mulligan's work partnering other legendary figures of jazz.[1] The album, as a "classic album from two giants", is featured in NPR's "Basic Jazz Record Library".[2] Originally released on the Verve label, the album was reissued by Verve, Mobile Fidelity and Polygram many times before being re-released in an expanded edition called Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Complete) by Verve in 1997.

Contents

[edit] 1959 track listing

Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Gerry Mulligan.

  1. "Chelsea Bridge" (Billy Strayhorn) – 7:22
  2. "The Cat Walk" (Mulligan, Ben Webster) – 5:47
  3. "Sunday" – 7:25
  4. "Who's Got Rhythm" – 7:42
  5. "Tell Me When" – 5:06
  6. "Go Home" (Chester Conn, Bennie Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) – 10:04

[edit] CD bonus tracks

  1. "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 6:57
  2. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) – 7:28
  3. "For Bessie" (Webster) – 5:41
  4. "Fajista" (Webster) – 5:50
  5. "Blues in B Flat" – 7:22

[edit] 1997 "Complete" track listing"

Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Gerry Mulligan.

  1. "In a Mellow Tone" (Ellington, Gabler) – 7:20
  2. "In a Mellow Tone (alternate take)" (Ellington, Gabler) – 5:44
  3. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) – 7:22
  4. "Chelsea Bridge (original LP master take)" (Strayhorn) – 7:39
  5. "Chelsea Bridge (alterate take)" (Strayhorn) – 5:03
  6. "Go Home (alternate take)" – 10:01
  7. "Go Home (original LP master take)" – 6:54
  8. "Who's Got Rhythm? (original LP master take)" – 7:26
  9. "For Bessie" (Webster) – 5:38
  10. "Go Home" (Mulligan, Webster) – 1:44
  11. "Go Home" (Mulligan, Webster) – 1:30
  12. "Fajista (alternate take)" (Webster) – 1:34
  13. "Fajista (alternate take)" (Webster) – 6:21
  14. "Fajista (alternate take)" (Webster) – 1:37
  15. "Fajista" (Webster) – 5:58
  16. "Tell Me When" – 5:02
  17. "Tell Me When (alternate take)" – 5:29
  18. "Blues in B Flat (alternate take)" – 2:46
  19. "Blues in B Flat" – 8:38
  20. "Blues in B Flat (alternate take)" – 7:23
  21. "The Catwalk (alternate take)" – 3:26
  22. "The Catwalk (alternate take)" – 5:45
  23. "The Catwalk (original LP master take)" – 2:13
  24. "The Catwalk (alterate take)" – 6:19
  25. "Sunday" (Conn, Krueger, Miller, Styne) – 5:32
  26. "Sunday" (Conn, Krueger, Miller, Styne) – 7:21

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rickert, David. (October 9, 2003). New Verve LPRs: Klemmer, Getz, Giuffre, Hodges & Mulligan All That Jazz website. Accessed November 18, 2007.
  2. ^ Horwitz, Murray. (June 18, 2005). Gerry Mulligan: 'Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster' NPR. Accessed November 18, 2007.