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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Chelsea Bridge
2. Willow Weep For Me
3. There Is No Greater Love
4. Teach Me Tonight
5. Until Tonight
6. We'll Be Together Again
7. Blue Moon
8. Early Autumn
9. My Greatest Mistake
10. What Am I Here For?
11. All Too Soon
12. Love Is Here to Stay
13. It Happens to Be Me
14. Do Nothin' till You Hear From Me
15. Prelude to a Kiss
16. Come Rain or Come Shine
17. Love Is Here to Stay - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
18. Love Is Here to Stay - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
DISC 2:
1. Some Other Spring
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Stars Fell on Alabama
4. Under a Blanket of Blue
5. Stars Fell on Alabama - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
6. Under a Blanket of Blue - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
7. Under a Blanket of Blue - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
8. My Funny Valentine
9. You're Mine, You!
10. Sophisticated Lady
11. Love's Away
12. Almost Like Being in Love
13. Ghost of a Chance (With You), (I Don't Stand) A
14. Take the "A" Train
15. We're in Love Again
16. Chalmeau
17. Moonlight on the Ganges
18. It Had to Be You
19. My Fantasy
20. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
Album Notes
MUSIC FOR LOVING: BEN WEBSTER WITH STRINGS contains the two 1955 LPs, MUSIC FOR LOVING and MUSIC WITH FEELING (including five previously unreleased, alternate takes), as well as Harry Carney's 1954 LP HARRY CARNEY WITH STRINGS.
MUSIC FOR LOVING: BEN WEBSTER WITH STRINGS:
Personnel includes: Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Ralph Burns (conductor); Billy Strayhorn (conductor, piano); Al Epstein (English horn, flute, clarinet); Danny Bank (flute, clarinet, bass clarinet); Tony Scott, Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet); David Novales, Mischa Russell, Leo Kruczek, Jack Zayde, Harry Lookofsky, Tosha Samaroff (violin); Richard Dickler, Burt Fisch (viola); Rudolph Sims, Bernard Greenhouse, Abram Borodkin, George Ricci, Lucien Schmit (cello); Teddy Wilson, Hank Jones (piano); George Duvivier, Chet Amsterdam, Ray Brown (bass); Louie Bellson, Osie Johnson, Jo Jones (drums).
Principally recorded at Fine Sound, New York between May 28, 1954 and September 9, 1955. Originally released as MUSIC WITH FEELING on Norgran (1039) and as MUSIC FOR LOVING on Norgran (1018).
HARRY CARNEY WITH STRINGS:
Personnel: Harry Carney (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet); Jimmy Hamilton (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Ray Nance (trumpet, violin); Tony Miranda (French horn); Mac Ceppos, Martin Donegan, Ben Gerrard, Howard Kay, Eugene Orloff, Sylvan Shulman, Zelly Smirnoff, Isadore Zir (violin); Sidney Edwards, Doris Johnson, Alan Shulman (cello); Leroy Lovett (piano); Billy Bauer (guitar); Wendell Marshall (bass); Louie Bellson (drums).
Recorded at Fine Sound, New York on December 13, 1954. Originally released on Clef (640).
Reissue producer: Michael Lang.
Originally released as three separate LPs. Includes liner notes by Loren Schoenberg.
Following in the footsteps of his idol Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster's corpus of work has stood up to the test of time. His lyrical sound has made him one of the great tenor saxophone masters in jazz history. On MUSIC FOR LOVING, Webster plays mostly ballads, the style in which Webster feels most comfortable and sounds best. His smoky, romantic sound is perfect for tunes such as "Prelude to a Kiss" and "(I Don't Stand) a Ghost of a Chance (With You)."
MUSIC FOR LOVING (recorded in 1954-1955) is a two-CD set featuring accompaniment by a lush string section with arrangements by Ralph Burns. Five previously unissued alternate takes, five quartet numbers (four with the Teddy Wilson Trio), and eight tracks showcasing baritone Harry Carney are also included.
Industry Reviews
...Webster...had achieved an essence of ballad playing. He ravished melodies with a combination of passion, power and tenderness that no tenor player, including John coltrane, Stan Getz and Zoot Sims, has equaled....these recordings of Webster...represent an ideal matching of musician and material...
JazzTimes (03/01/1996)
...contains...Webster's long unavailable sessions with strings, as well as a strings album by...Harry Carney. Most of the arrangements are by Ralph Burns and Billy Strayhorn....some of the finest horn-backed-by-strings sessions ever recorded, featuring a felicitous pairing of melodically gifted soloists and arrangers...
Musician (11/01/1995)
...Webster...had achieved an essence of ballad playing. He ravished melodies with a combination of passion, power and tenderness that no tenor player, including John coltrane, Stan Getz and Zoot Sims, has equaled....these recordings of Webster...represent an ideal matching of musician and material...
JazzTimes (03/01/1996)
...contains...Webster's long unavailable sessions with strings, as well as a strings album by...Harry Carney. Most of the arrangements are by Ralph Burns and Billy Strayhorn....some of the finest horn-backed-by-strings sessions ever recorded, featuring a felicitous pairing of melodically gifted soloists and arrangers...
Musician (11/01/1995)
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