Pablo has put out some great music in the past but I have to admit that the Tatum Group Masterpieces with Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Red Callender and Bill Douglass is one of the best jazz recordings I have ever heard. Recorded in 1956 in Los Angeles this is music to relax to and marvel at just how good jazz can really be. Ben Webster is a great musician and his sax playing is so good that you might just want to listen to this again and again. As I listen to these classics from the 60's and 50's I am often saddened that a lot of these artists are not around anymore. Can you imagine what it must have been like to walk in midtown Manhattan and see a whose who of jazz performing in the clubs? Coltrane, Miles, Ben Webster, Thelonious...I am not sure that they can ever be replaced
Pablo has put out some great music in the past but I have to admit that the Tatum Group Masterpieces with Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Red Callender and Bill Douglass is one of the best jazz recordings I have ever heard. Recorded in 1956 in Los Angeles this is music to relax to and marvel at just how good jazz can really be. Ben Webster is a great musician and his sax playing is so good that you might just want to listen to this again and again. As I listen to these classics from the 60's and 50's I am often saddened that a lot of these artists are not around anymore. Can you imagine what it must have been like to walk in midtown Manhattan and see a whose who of jazz performing in the clubs? Coltrane, Miles, Ben Webster, Thelonious...I am not sure that they can ever be replaced