Ben Webster - Meets Oscar Peterson - [Vinyl]

Ben Webster (1909-1973) was, without a doubt, one of the most important and influential tenor saxophonists in jazz. This album features one of his finest collaborations with Oscar Peterson, who the tenor saxophonist often stated was his favorite accompanist. They made their first recorded collaboration in 1952 and went on to record many albums during the fifties, when both were working for Norman Granz s Jazz at the Philharmonic . Following that, they would continue to play and record together on many different occasions and in many different contexts. Their final preserved collaboration (and their only known recording together after this 1959 LP) is a live performance at the Funkhaus, in Hannover, Germany, on December 14, 1972, which was both taped and filmed. Ben, who was living in Holland by this time, would die less than a year later, on September 20, 1973.

Ben Webster - Meets Oscar Peterson - [Vinyl]

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