Music & Other Recordings
CDs with: Webster, Ben
- Bird : the complete Charlie Parker on Verve.
- Sweet Georgie Brown -- Blues for Norman -- I can't get started -- Lady be good -- After you've gone -- I got rhythm -- Introductions by Norman Granz -- JATP blues -- The Jazz scene: The Bird -- Repetition -- No noise, parts I & II -- No noise, part II -- Mango manue -- Okiedoki -- Cardboard -- Visa -- Segment (tune X) -- Diverse (tune X) -- Passport (tune Y) -- Passport (tune Z) -- The opener -- Lester leaps in -- Embraceable you -- The closer -- Ow -- Flyin' home -- How high the moon -- Perdido -- Just friends -- Everything happens to me -- April in Paris -- Summertime -- I didn't know what time it was -- If I should lose you -- Star eyes -- Blues -- I'm in the mood for love -- Bloomidido -- An Oscar for Treadwell -- Mohawk -- My melancholy baby -- Leap frog -- Relaxing with Lee. Dancing in the dark -- Out of nowhere -- Laura -- East of the sun -- They can't take that away from me -- Easy to love -- I'm in the mood for love -- I'll remember April -- What is this thing called love -- Rocker -- Celebrity -- Ballade -- Afro-Cuban jazz suite -- Au privave -- She rote -- K.C. blues -- Star eyes -- My little suede shoes -- Un poquito de tu amor -- Tico tico -- Fiesta -- Why do I love you? -- Blues for Alice -- Si si Swedish schnapps -- Back home blues -- Loverman -- Temptation -- Lover -- Autumn in New York -- Stella by starlight -- Mama Inez -- La cucuracha -- Estrellita -- Begin the beguine -- La paloma -- Night and day -- Almost like being in love -- I can't get started -- Disc 8. Jam blues -- Ballad medley -- Funky blues. The song is you -- Laird baird -- Kim -- Cosmic rays -- In the still of the night -- Old folks -- If I love again -- Chi chi -- I remember you -- Now's the time -- Confirmation -- I get a kick out of you -- Just one of those things -- My heart belongs to Daddy -- I've got you under my skin -- Love for sale -- I love Paris.
- CD 1666
- Complete Charlie Parker on Verve
- Sweet Georgie Brown -- Blues for Norman -- I can't get started -- Lady be good -- After you've gone -- I got rhythm -- Introductions by Norman Granz -- JATP blues -- The Jazz scene: The Bird -- Repetition -- No noise, parts I & II -- No noise, part II -- Mango manue -- Okiedoki -- Cardboard -- Visa -- Segment (tune X) -- Diverse (tune X) -- Passport (tune Y) -- Passport (tune Z) -- The opener -- Lester leaps in -- Embraceable you -- The closer -- Ow -- Flyin' home -- How high the moon -- Perdido -- Just friends -- Everything happens to me -- April in Paris -- Summertime -- I didn't know what time it was -- If I should lose you -- Star eyes -- Blues -- I'm in the mood for love -- Bloomidido -- An Oscar for Treadwell -- Mohawk -- My melancholy baby -- Leap frog -- Relaxing with Lee. Dancing in the dark -- Out of nowhere -- Laura -- East of the sun -- They can't take that away from me -- Easy to love -- I'm in the mood for love -- I'll remember April -- What is this thing called love -- Rocker -- Celebrity -- Ballade -- Afro-Cuban jazz suite -- Au privave -- She rote -- K.C. blues -- Star eyes -- My little suede shoes -- Un poquito de tu amor -- Tico tico -- Fiesta -- Why do I love you? -- Blues for Alice -- Si si Swedish schnapps -- Back home blues -- Loverman -- Temptation -- Lover -- Autumn in New York -- Stella by starlight -- Mama Inez -- La cucuracha -- Estrellita -- Begin the beguine -- La paloma -- Night and day -- Almost like being in love -- I can't get started -- Disc 8. Jam blues -- Ballad medley -- Funky blues. The song is you -- Laird baird -- Kim -- Cosmic rays -- In the still of the night -- Old folks -- If I love again -- Chi chi -- I remember you -- Now's the time -- Confirmation -- I get a kick out of you -- Just one of those things -- My heart belongs to Daddy -- I've got you under my skin -- Love for sale -- I love Paris.
- CD 1666
- Cotton tail / Ben Webster.
- Cotton tail / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:09) -- All too soon / Edward Kennedy Ellington ; Carl Sigman (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:30) -- Toby / Buster Moten ; Eddie Bearfield (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) (3:06) -- Lafayette / William Basie ; Eddie Durham (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) (2:46) -- The voice of Old Man River / William Steven Bryant ; Harry White (Willie Bryant and his orchestra) (3:09) -- Early session hop / Teddy Wilson ; Buster Harding (Lionel Hampton and his orchestra) (2:38) -- Conga brava / Edward Kennedy Ellington ; Juan Tizol (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:56) -- Bojangles / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:52) -- My greatest mistake / Jack Fulton ; John O'Brien (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:24) -- Chloe / Gus Kahn ; Neil Moret (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:25) -- Mobile Bay / Rex Stewart ; Edward Kennedy Ellington (Rex Stewart and his orchestra) (3:04) -- Linger awhile / Harry Owens ; Victor Rose (Rex Stewart and his orchestra) (3:24) -- Blue serge / Mercer Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:21) -- Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' / Edward Kennedy Ellington ; Billy Strayhorn ; Lee Gaines (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:33) -- Some Saturday / Rex Stewart (Rex Stewart and his orchestra) (2:57) -- Five o'clock drag / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:11) -- Chelsea Bridge / Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:53) -- Rain check / Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:29) -- Perdido / Juan Tizol (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:07) -- What am I here for? / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:26) -- Main stem / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:47) -- Cadillac Slim / Ben Webster (Benny Carter and his Chocolate Dandies) (3:01).
- CD 2208
- Cottontail
- Cotton tail / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:09) -- All too soon / Edward Kennedy Ellington ; Carl Sigman (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:30) -- Toby / Buster Moten ; Eddie Bearfield (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) (3:06) -- Lafayette / William Basie ; Eddie Durham (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) (2:46) -- The voice of Old Man River / William Steven Bryant ; Harry White (Willie Bryant and his orchestra) (3:09) -- Early session hop / Teddy Wilson ; Buster Harding (Lionel Hampton and his orchestra) (2:38) -- Conga brava / Edward Kennedy Ellington ; Juan Tizol (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:56) -- Bojangles / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:52) -- My greatest mistake / Jack Fulton ; John O'Brien (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:24) -- Chloe / Gus Kahn ; Neil Moret (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:25) -- Mobile Bay / Rex Stewart ; Edward Kennedy Ellington (Rex Stewart and his orchestra) (3:04) -- Linger awhile / Harry Owens ; Victor Rose (Rex Stewart and his orchestra) (3:24) -- Blue serge / Mercer Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:21) -- Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' / Edward Kennedy Ellington ; Billy Strayhorn ; Lee Gaines (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:33) -- Some Saturday / Rex Stewart (Rex Stewart and his orchestra) (2:57) -- Five o'clock drag / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:11) -- Chelsea Bridge / Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:53) -- Rain check / Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:29) -- Perdido / Juan Tizol (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:07) -- What am I here for? / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (3:26) -- Main stem / Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra) (2:47) -- Cadillac Slim / Ben Webster (Benny Carter and his Chocolate Dandies) (3:01).
- CD 2208
- Study in frustration
- v. 1. The dicty blues / F. Henderson (2:35) -- Teapot Dome blues / Shoebel, Mills, Lottman (2:55) -- Go 'long mule / Creamer, King (3:04) -- Shanghai shuffle Rodemich, Conley (3:18) -- Copenhagen / Davis, Melrose (2:50) -- Everybody loves my baby / Palmer, Williams (2:50) -- How come you do me like you do / Austin, Bergere (3:10) -- Alabamy bound / DeSylva, Green, Henderson (3:05) -- Sugarfoot stomp / Oliver, Melrose (2:47) -- What-cha-call-'em blues Roberts (2:50) -- T.N.T. / Schoebel (2:53) -- The stampede / F. Henderson (3:15) -- Jackass blues / Sititzel, Kassel (3:11) -- Henderson stomp / F. Henderson (2:50) -- The chant / Stitzel (2:54) -- Snag it / Oliver (3:09) -- Rocky Mountain blues / F. Henderson, Carroll, Macomber (2:43) -- Tozo / F. Henderson, Cowdry (2:55) -- St. Louis shuffle / Waller, Pettis (2:58) -- Whiteman stomp / Waller, Trent (2:45) -- I'm coming Virginia / Heywood, Cook (3:03) -- Variety stomp / Trent, F. Henderson, Green (3:01) -- St. Louis blues / Handy (3:03) -- Goose pimples / F. Henderson, Trent (2:59). v. 2. Hop off / Williams (2:52) -- King Porter stomp / Morton (3:09) -- D natural blues / F. Henderson (3:25) -- Oh baby (2:43) ; Feeling good (3:24) / Murphy -- I'm feeling devilish / Pinkard (2:41) -- Old Black Joe blues / F. Henderson, Lottman (2:13) -- Easy money / Austin (3:03) -- Come on baby / Gottler, Clare, Pinkard (2:50) -- Freeze and melt (3:03) ; Raisin' the roof (2:38) / Fields, McHugh -- Blazin' / Sanders (2:53) -- Wang wang blues / Mueller, Busse, Johnson (3:00) -- Chinatown, my Chinatown / Schwartz, Jerome (3:00) -- Somebody loves me / Macdonald, DeSylva, Gershwin (3:00) -- Keep a song in your soul / Waller, Hill (3:15) -- Sweet and hot / Yeller, Arlen (3:23) -- My gal Sal / Dresser (3:25) -- Sugarfoot stomp / Oliver, Melrose (3:18) -- Clarinet marmalade / Shields, Ragas (3:11) -- Hot and anxious / H. Henderson (3:19) -- Comin' and goin' / H. Henderson, F. Henderson (3:08) -- Singin' the blues / Fields, McHugh (3:04) -- Sugar / Meyer, Young (2:57). v. 3. Blue moments / F. Henderson (2:31) -- New King Porter stomp / Morton (3:05) -- Underneath the Harlem moon / Ravel, Gordon (3:13) -- Honeysuckle Rose / Waller, Razaf (3:10) -- Yeah man / Sissle, Robinson (2:54) -- Queer notions / Hawkins (2:47) -- Can you take it! / F. Henderson (2:47) -- King Porter stomp / Morton (2:54) -- Christopher Columbus / Berry, Razaf (3:01) -- Stealin' apples / Waller, Razaf (2:55) -- Blue Lou / Sampson, Mills (3:06) -- Rhythm of the tambourine / Franklin (2:37) -- Back in your own backyard / Jolson, Rose, Dreyer (2:30) -- Chris and his gang / F. Henderson, H. Henderson, Dorsey (3:00) -- Sing you sinners / Coslow, Harling (2:40) -- Moten stomp / Buster Moten, Bennie Moten (2:43).
- CD 2629
- The Blanton-Webster band / Duke Ellington.
- You, you darlin' / Scholl, Jerome (3:19) -- Jack the bear (3:15) -- Ko-ko (2:39) -- Morning glory (3:15) -- So far, so good / Lawrence, Mundy, White (2:50) -- Conga brava / Ellington, Tizol (2:54) -- Concerto for Cootie (3:19) -- Me and you (2:54) -- Cotton tail (3:08) -- Never no lament (3:15) --Dusk (3:19) -- Bojangles (A portrait of Bill Robinson) (2:50) -- A portrait of Bert Williams (3:09) -- Blue goose (3:21) -- Harlem air shaft (2:57) -- At a Dixie roadside diner / Leslie, Burke (2:45) -- All too soon / Ellington, Sigman (3:28) -- Rumpus in Richmond (2:46) -- My greatest mistake / Fulton, O'Brien (3:27) -- Sepia panorama (3:20) -- There shall be no night / Shelley, Silver (3:05) -- In a mellotone (3:19) -- Five o'clock whistle / Gannon, Myrow, Irwin (3:18) -- Warm valley (3:20) -- The flaming sword (3:06) -- Across the track blues (2:58) -- Chloe (Song of the swamp) / Kahn, Moret (3:24). (cont.): I never felt this way before / Dubin, Ellington (3:23) -- The sidewalks of New York / Lawlor, Blake (3:14) -- Flamingo / Grouya, Anderson (3:22) -- The girl in my dreams tries to look like you / Mercer Ellington (3:19) -- Take the "A" train / Strayhorn (2:54) -- Jumpin' punkins / Mercer Ellington (3:33) -- John Hardy's wife / Mercer Ellington (3:28) -- Blue serge / Mercer Ellington (3:20) -- After all / Strayhorn (3:19) -- Bakiff / Tizol (3:23) -- Are you sticking? (3:02) -- Just a-settin' and a-rockin' / Ellington, Strayhorn, Gaines (3:33) -- The giddybug gallop (3:29) -- Chocolate shake / Ellington, Webster (2:50) -- I got it bad (and that ain't good) / Ellington, Webster (3:17) -- Clementine / Strayhorn (2:53) -- The brown-skin gal (in the calico gown) / Ellington, Webster (3:06). (cont.): Jump for joy / Ellington, Webster, Kuller (2:50) -- Moon over Cuba / Ellington, Tizol (3:09) -- Five o'clock drag (2:49) -- Rocks in my bed (3:06) -- Bli-blip / Ellington, Kuller (3:03) -- Chelsea Bridge / Strayhorn (2:52) -- Raincheck / Strayhorn (2:28) -- What good would it do? / Pepper, James (2:44) -- I don't know what kind of blues I got (3:13) -- Perdido / Tizol (3:08) -- The "C" jam blues (2:37) -- Moon mist / Mercer Ellington (2:58) -- What am I here for? (3:28) -- I don't mind / Strayhorn, Ellington (2:49) -- Someone (3:09) -- My little brown book / Strayhorn (3:13) -- Main stem (2:47) -- Johnny come lately / Strayhorn (2:39) -- Hayfoot strawfoot / Lenk, Drake, McGrane (2:30) -- Sentimental lady (2:58) -- A slip of the lip (can sink a ship) / Henderson, M. Ellington (2:54) -- Sherman shuffle (2:38).
- CD 1205
- The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall concerts January 1943.
- Disc one. The star spangled banner (1:13) -- Black and tan fantasy (6:36) -- Rockin' in rhythm (4:14) -- Moon mist (3:23) -- Jumpin' punkins (3:02) -- Portrait of Bert Williams (2:48) -- (Portrait of) Bojangles (3:14) -- Portrait of Florence Mills (Black Beauty) (3:39) -- Ko-ko (2:00) -- Dirge (3:03) -- Stomp (Johnny come lately) (2:18) -- Are you stickin'? (3:02) -- Black (1st mov. of Black Brown and Beige) (20:44). Disc two. Brown (10:10) -- Beige (13:29) -- Bakiff (5:56) -- Jack the bear (2;56) -- Blue belles of Harlem (6:03) -- Cotton tail (2:40) -- Day dream (3:27) -- Boy meets horn (5:20) -- Rose of the Rio Grande (2:08) -- Don't get around much anymore (4:11) -- Goin' up (3:42) -- Mood indigo (4:34).
- CD 2838
- The Fletcher Henderson story : a study in frustration.
- v. 1. The dicty blues / F. Henderson (2:35) -- Teapot Dome blues / Shoebel, Mills, Lottman (2:55) -- Go 'long mule / Creamer, King (3:04) -- Shanghai shuffle Rodemich, Conley (3:18) -- Copenhagen / Davis, Melrose (2:50) -- Everybody loves my baby / Palmer, Williams (2:50) -- How come you do me like you do / Austin, Bergere (3:10) -- Alabamy bound / DeSylva, Green, Henderson (3:05) -- Sugarfoot stomp / Oliver, Melrose (2:47) -- What-cha-call-'em blues Roberts (2:50) -- T.N.T. / Schoebel (2:53) -- The stampede / F. Henderson (3:15) -- Jackass blues / Sititzel, Kassel (3:11) -- Henderson stomp / F. Henderson (2:50) -- The chant / Stitzel (2:54) -- Snag it / Oliver (3:09) -- Rocky Mountain blues / F. Henderson, Carroll, Macomber (2:43) -- Tozo / F. Henderson, Cowdry (2:55) -- St. Louis shuffle / Waller, Pettis (2:58) -- Whiteman stomp / Waller, Trent (2:45) -- I'm coming Virginia / Heywood, Cook (3:03) -- Variety stomp / Trent, F. Henderson, Green (3:01) -- St. Louis blues / Handy (3:03) -- Goose pimples / F. Henderson, Trent (2:59). v. 2. Hop off / Williams (2:52) -- King Porter stomp / Morton (3:09) -- D natural blues / F. Henderson (3:25) -- Oh baby (2:43) ; Feeling good (3:24) / Murphy -- I'm feeling devilish / Pinkard (2:41) -- Old Black Joe blues / F. Henderson, Lottman (2:13) -- Easy money / Austin (3:03) -- Come on baby / Gottler, Clare, Pinkard (2:50) -- Freeze and melt (3:03) ; Raisin' the roof (2:38) / Fields, McHugh -- Blazin' / Sanders (2:53) -- Wang wang blues / Mueller, Busse, Johnson (3:00) -- Chinatown, my Chinatown / Schwartz, Jerome (3:00) -- Somebody loves me / Macdonald, DeSylva, Gershwin (3:00) -- Keep a song in your soul / Waller, Hill (3:15) -- Sweet and hot / Yeller, Arlen (3:23) -- My gal Sal / Dresser (3:25) -- Sugarfoot stomp / Oliver, Melrose (3:18) -- Clarinet marmalade / Shields, Ragas (3:11) -- Hot and anxious / H. Henderson (3:19) -- Comin' and goin' / H. Henderson, F. Henderson (3:08) -- Singin' the blues / Fields, McHugh (3:04) -- Sugar / Meyer, Young (2:57). v. 3. Blue moments / F. Henderson (2:31) -- New King Porter stomp / Morton (3:05) -- Underneath the Harlem moon / Ravel, Gordon (3:13) -- Honeysuckle Rose / Waller, Razaf (3:10) -- Yeah man / Sissle, Robinson (2:54) -- Queer notions / Hawkins (2:47) -- Can you take it! / F. Henderson (2:47) -- King Porter stomp / Morton (2:54) -- Christopher Columbus / Berry, Razaf (3:01) -- Stealin' apples / Waller, Razaf (2:55) -- Blue Lou / Sampson, Mills (3:06) -- Rhythm of the tambourine / Franklin (2:37) -- Back in your own backyard / Jolson, Rose, Dreyer (2:30) -- Chris and his gang / F. Henderson, H. Henderson, Dorsey (3:00) -- Sing you sinners / Coslow, Harling (2:40) -- Moten stomp / Buster Moten, Bennie Moten (2:43).
- CD 2629