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Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. [1]

134 relations: All Too Soon, Alvin Stoller, Amsterdam, Andy Kirk (musician), Archie Shepp, Art Tatum, Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen), At Newport '63 (Joe Williams album), Barney Kessel, Ben and "Sweets", Ben Webster and Associates, Ben Webster at the Renaissance, Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster Prize, Bennie Moten, Bennie Wallace, Benny Carter, Bill Douglass, Birds of a Feather (album), Black Lion Records, Blues A-Plenty, Budd Johnson, Buddy Bregman, Buddy Rich, Cab Calloway, Carmen McRae, Clark Terry, Coleman Hawkins, Coleman Hawkins and Confrères, Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster, Columbia Records, Contemporary Records, Copenhagen, Cotton Tail, Count Basie, David Murray (saxophonist), Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Fletcher Henderson, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (album), Georges Arvanitas, Gerry Mulligan, Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, Groove (album), Harry Carney, Harry Edison, Herb Ellis, Hot Lips Page, ..., Illinois Jacquet, Impulse! Records, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Jay McShann, Jazz, Jazz at the Philharmonic, Jazz collections at the University Library of Southern Denmark, Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album), Jimmy Blanton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Woode, Joe Williams (jazz singer), Joe Zawinul, John Kirby (musician), Johnny Hodges, Kansas City (film), Kansas City, Missouri, Kenny Clarke, King of the Tenors, Leiden, Les McCann, Les McCann Sings, Lester Young, Let's Cook!, Lew Tabackin, Lionel Hampton, Margrethe II of Denmark, Modern Jazz Quartet, More Blues and the Abstract Truth, Mundell Lowe, My Man: Live at Montmartre 1973, Nørrebro, Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band, Norgran Records, Norman Granz, Not So Dukish, Oliver Nelson, Oscar Peterson, Philips Records, Porgy & Bess (Mundell Lowe album), Pornographic film, Ray Brown (musician), Raymond Scott, Red Callender, Reprise Records, Richard Holmes (organist), Riverside Records, Robert Altman, Roy Eldridge, Saxophone, Scott Hamilton (musician), See You at the Fair, Sid Catlett, Songs for Hip Lovers, Soulmates (Ben Webster album), Soulville, SteepleChase Records, Storyville Records, String Along with Basie, Stuff Smith, Sweets (album), Swinging Kicks, Teddy Wilson, Tell It Like It Tis, Tenor saxophone, Tete Montoliu, The Blanton–Webster Band, The Blues (Johnny Hodges album), The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, The Happy Horns of Clark Terry, The Kid and the Brute, The Soul of Ben Webster, The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight, The Wailing Buddy Rich, The Warm Moods, Tivoli Gardens, Verve Records, Violin, Walter Page, Willie Bryant, Woody Herman, You Better Know It!!!, 1953: An Exceptional Encounter, 52nd Street (Manhattan). Expand index (84 more) »

All Too Soon

"All Too Soon" is a 1940 song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics written by Carl Sigman.

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Alvin Stoller

Alvin Stoller (October 7, 1925 – October 19, 1992) was an American jazz drummer.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Andy Kirk (musician)

Andrew Dewey “Andy ” Kirk (May 28, 1898 – December 11, 1992) was a jazz saxophonist and tubist best known as a bandleader of the "Twelve Clouds of Joy", popular during the swing era.

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Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Art Tatum

Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist.

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Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen)

Assistens Cemetery (Danish: Assistens Kirkegård) in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the burial site of a large number of Danish notables as well as an important greenspace in the Nørrebro district.

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At Newport '63 (Joe Williams album)

At Newport '63 is a 1963 live album by jazz singer Joe Williams, recorded at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival.

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Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

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Ben and "Sweets"

Ben and "Sweets" is a 1962 jazz recording by Ben Webster and Harry "Sweets" Edison.

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Ben Webster and Associates

Ben Webster and Associates is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Verve label.

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Ben Webster at the Renaissance

Ben Webster at the Renaissance is a live album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster featuring tracks recorded in California in 1960 and released on the Contemporary label.

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Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson

Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson is a 1959 (see 1959 in music) studio album featuring a jazz trio, led by the Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, with the tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.

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Ben Webster Prize

The Ben Webster Prize is an annual jazz award set up by the Ben Webster Foundation to honour Danish and American jazz musicians as well as other professionals active in the promotion of jazz in those countries.

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Bennie Moten

Benjamin "Bennie" Moten (November 13, 1894 – April 2, 1935) was an American jazz pianist and band leader born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Bennie Wallace

Bennie Wallace (born November 18, 1946) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

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Bill Douglass

William Douglass (1923–December 19, 1994) was an American jazz drummer born in Sherman, Texas.

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Birds of a Feather (album)

Birds of a Feather is a 1958 album by Carmen McRae.

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Black Lion Records

Black Lion Records was a jazz record company and label based in London, England.

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Blues A-Plenty

Blues A-Plenty is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Verve label.

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Budd Johnson

Albert J. "Budd" Johnson III (December 14, 1910 – October 20, 1984) was an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who worked extensively with, among others, Ben Webster, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Turner, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Count Basie, Billie Holiday and, especially, Earl Hines.

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Buddy Bregman

Louis Isidore "Buddy" Bregman (July 9, 1930 – January 8, 2017) was an American arranger, producer, and composer.

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Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.

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Carmen McRae

Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1922 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer.

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Clark Terry

Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Coleman Hawkins and Confrères

Coleman Hawkins and Confrères is an album by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins which was recorded in 1958 (with one track from 1957) and released on the Verve label.

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Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster

Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster is studio album recorded on October 16, 1957, by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, accompanied by a rhythm section led by Oscar Peterson.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Contemporary Records

Contemporary Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Lester Koenig in Los Angeles in 1951.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København; Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.

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Cotton Tail

"Cotton Tail" is a 1940 composition by Duke Ellington.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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David Murray (saxophonist)

David Murray (born February 19, 1955) is an American jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet mainly.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Don Byas

Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas (October 21, 1912 – August 24, 1972) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, most associated with bebop.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Earl Hines

Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader.

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Fletcher Henderson

James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson Jr. (December 18, 1897 – December 29, 1952) was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music.

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Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (album)

Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You is an album by trumpeter Harry Edison which was recorded in 1957 and released on the Verve label.

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Georges Arvanitas

Georges Arvanitas (June 13, 1931 – September 25, 2005) was a French jazz pianist and organist.

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

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Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

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.

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Groove (album)

"Groove" (full title Les McCann Presents the Dynamid Jazz Organ of Richard "Groove" Holmes with Ben Webster, Les McCann, Tricky Lofton, Ron Jefferson & George Freeman) is the debut led by organist Richard "Groove" Holmes recorded in 1961 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.

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Harry Carney

Harry Howell Carney (April 1, 1910 – October 8, 1974) was an American jazz musician whose virtuosity on the baritone saxophone influenced generations of subsequent players.

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Harry Edison

Harry "Sweets" Edison (October 10, 1915 – July 27, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra.

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Herb Ellis

Mitchell Herbert Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010) was an American jazz guitarist.

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Hot Lips Page

Oran Thaddeus Page (January 27, 1908 – November 5, 1954) was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader born in Dallas, Texas, United States.

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Illinois Jacquet

Jean-Baptiste "Illinois" Jacquet (October 30, 1922 – July 22, 2004) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, best remembered for his solo on "Flying Home", critically recognized as the first R&B saxophone solo.

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Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records is an American jazz record company and label established by Creed Taylor in 1960.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Jay McShann

James Columbus "Jay" McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006) was a jazz pianist and bandleader.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz at the Philharmonic

Jazz at the Philharmonic, or JATP (1944–1983), was the title of a series of jazz concerts, tours and recordings produced by Norman Granz.

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Jazz collections at the University Library of Southern Denmark

The Music Department at the University Library of Southern Denmark (SDUB) in Odense has through donations and acquisitions since 1997 achieved the status of research archive of specialised jazz studies.

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Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album)

Jazz Giant is an album by saxophonist Benny Carter that was recorded in 1957 and 1958 and released by Contemporary Records.

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Jimmy Blanton

James Blanton (October 5, 1918 – July 30, 1942) was an American jazz double bassist.

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Jimmy Witherspoon

James Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American jump blues singer.

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Jimmy Woode

James Bryant Woode (September 23, 1926 – April 23, 2005) was an American jazz bassist.

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Joe Williams (jazz singer)

Joe Williams (born Joseph Goreed; December 12, 1918 – March 29, 1999) was an American jazz singer.

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Joe Zawinul

Josef Erich "Joe" Zawinul (7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer.

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John Kirby (musician)

John Kirby (December 31, 1908 – June 14, 1952), was a jazz double-bassist who also played trombone and tuba.

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Johnny Hodges

John Cornelius Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band.

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Kansas City (film)

Kansas City is a 1996 crime film directed by Robert Altman and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, and Steve Buscemi.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Kenny Clarke

Kenneth Spearman Clarke (January 9, 1914January 26, 1985), nicknamed "Klook" and later known as Liaquat Ali Salaam, was a jazz drummer and bandleader.

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King of the Tenors

King of the Tenors is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster featuring tracks recorded in 1953 for the Norgran label and originally released as The Consummate Artistry of Ben Webster (MGN 1001).

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Leiden

Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Les McCann

Leslie Coleman McCann (born September 23, 1935) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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Les McCann Sings

Les McCann Sings is an album by pianist and vocalist Les McCann recorded in 1961 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.

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Lester Young

Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.

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Let's Cook!

Let's Cook! is an album by guitarist Barney Kessel recorded at sessions in 1957 but not released on the Contemporary label until 1962.

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Lew Tabackin

Lewis Barry Tabackin (born March 26, 1940) is a jazz flutist and tenor saxophonist.

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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.

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Margrethe II of Denmark

Margrethe II (Margrethe 2.,; Margreta 2.; Margrethe II; full name: Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid; born 16 April 1940) is the Queen of Denmark; as well as the supreme authority of the Church of Denmark and Commander-in-Chief of the Danish Defence.

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Modern Jazz Quartet

The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played music influenced by classical, cool jazz, blues and bebop.

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More Blues and the Abstract Truth

More Blues and the Abstract Truth is an album by American jazz composer, conductor and arranger Oliver Nelson featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the Impulse! label.

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Mundell Lowe

James Mundell Lowe (April 21, 1922 – December 2, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist who worked often in radio, television, and film, and as a session musician.

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My Man: Live at Montmartre 1973

My Man: Live at Montmartre 1973 is a live album by American saxophonist Ben Webster recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in 1973 and released on the SteepleChase label.

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Nørrebro

Nørrebro is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band

Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band is a 2003 three-disc compilation combining the master takes of all the recordings by Duke Ellington's Orchestra during the years of 1940 to 1942 with an additional nine tracks, including five alternative takes and four new masters.

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Norgran Records

Norgran Records was an American jazz record label in Los Angeles founded by Norman Granz in 1953.

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Norman Granz

Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz music impresario.

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Not So Dukish

Not So Dukish is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Verve label.

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Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

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Philips Records

Philips Records is a record label that was founded by the Dutch electronics company Philips.

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Porgy & Bess (Mundell Lowe album)

Porgy & Bess is an album by American jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe and his All Stars featuring their interpretations of the George Gershwin folk opera Porgy and Bess recorded in 1958 for the RCA Camden label.

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Pornographic film

Pornographic films, or sex films, are films that present sexually explicit subject matter for the purpose of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction of the viewer.

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Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an African American jazz double bassist known for extensive work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.

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Raymond Scott

Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow, September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor.

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Red Callender

George Sylvester "Red" Callender (March 6, 1916 – March 8, 1992) was an American string bass and tuba player.

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Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.

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Richard Holmes (organist)

Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes (May 2, 1931 – June 29, 1991) was an American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre.

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Riverside Records

Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label.

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Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Roy Eldridge

David Roy Eldridge (30 January 1911 – 26 February 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpet player.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Scott Hamilton (musician)

Scott Hamilton (born September 12, 1954) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, associated with swing (music) and mainstream jazz.

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See You at the Fair

See You at the Fair is an album by jazz saxophonist Ben Webster, released on Impulse! Records.

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Sid Catlett

Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett (January 17, 1910 – March 25, 1951) was an American jazz drummer.

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Songs for Hip Lovers

Songs for Hip Lovers is a 1957 vocal album by the jazz bandleader Woody Herman, arranged by Marty Paich.

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Soulmates (Ben Webster album)

Soulmates is an album by saxophonist Ben Webster and pianist Joe Zawinul featuring tracks recorded in 1963 for the Riverside label.

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Soulville

Soulville is a 1957 album by swing tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, recording a session from October 15, 1957 which Webster played with the Oscar Peterson Trio.

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SteepleChase Records

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Storyville Records

Storyville Records is an international record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in jazz and blues music.

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String Along with Basie

String Along with Basie is an album by pianist, composer and bandleader Count Basie accompanied by a small band and string section on tracks recorded in 1959 and 1960 and originally released on the Roulette label.

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Stuff Smith

Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz violinist.

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Sweets (album)

Sweets is an album by American jazz trumpeter Harry Edison and His Orchestra recorded in 1956 and originally released on the Clef label.

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Swinging Kicks

Swinging Kicks is a 1957 album by the jazz arranger Buddy Bregman.

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Teddy Wilson

Theodore Shaw Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist.

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Tell It Like It Tis

Tell It Like It Tis is an album led by organist Richard "Groove" Holmes recorded in 1961 and 1962 and released on the Pacific Jazz label in 1966.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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Tete Montoliu

Vicenç Montoliu i Massana, better known as Tete Montoliu (28 March 1933 – 24 August 1997) was a jazz pianist from Catalonia, Spain.

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The Blanton–Webster Band

The Blanton–Webster Band is a compilation album that combines the master takes of all the recordings by Duke Ellington's Orchestra during the years of 1940 to 1942, involving bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.

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The Blues (Johnny Hodges album)

The Blues is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1952, 1953 and 1954 and released on the Norgran label.

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The Complete RCA Victor Recordings

The Complete RCA Victor Recordings is a 1995 compilation 2-CD set of sessions led by jazz trumpeter and composer Dizzy Gillespie recorded for the RCA Victor label between 1937 and 1949.

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The Happy Horns of Clark Terry

The Happy Horns of Clark Terry is an album by American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player Clark Terry featuring performances recorded in March 1964 for the Impulse! label.

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The Kid and the Brute

The Kid and the Brute is an album by American jazz saxophonists Illinois Jacquet and Ben Webster recorded in late 1954 and released on the Clef label.

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The Soul of Ben Webster

The Soul of Ben Webster is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster featuring tracks recorded in 1958 for the Verve label.

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The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight

The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight is an album by pianist Art Tatum and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, with Red Callender on double bass and Bill Douglass on drums.

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The Wailing Buddy Rich

The Wailing Buddy Rich is a 1955 recording by jazz drummer Buddy Rich on the Norgran Records label.

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The Warm Moods

The Warm Moods is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster featuring tracks recorded in 1960 for the Reprise label.

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Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli Gardens (or simply Tivoli) is an amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Walter Page

Walter Sylvester Page (February 9, 1900 – December 20, 1957) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, best known for his groundbreaking work as a double bass player with Walter Page's Blue Devils and the Count Basie Orchestra.

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Willie Bryant

William Stevens Bryant (August 30, 1908 – February 9, 1964) was an American jazz bandleader, vocalist, and disc jockey, known as the "Mayor of Harlem".

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Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader.

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You Better Know It!!!

You Better Know It!!! is an album by American jazz vibraponist Lionel Hampton featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the Impulse! label.

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1953: An Exceptional Encounter

1953: An Exceptional Encounter is a live jazz recording featuring Ben Webster and the Modern Jazz Quartet, released on The Jazz Factory Label in 2001.

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52nd Street (Manhattan)

52nd Street is a long one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Benjamin F. Webster, Benjamin Francis Webster.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Webster

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