Ben Webster - Chelsea Bridge (1964)

With Stan Tracey - piano; Ricky Laird - bass; Jackie Doogan - drums

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[Alvarez Cutaway]

Ben Webster : the best of the best. Listening him to play is next to the best: watching him. He knew the lyrics (if such existed) of all the music hed play; hence, the lyrical and organic quality of his touch. When Webster plays, he reminds me of Sarah Vaughn singing.

[UltraMN]

This is a gem. A carefully crafted masterpiece.

[Inglejuice]

playin that shit like a violin!

[Bobby Mobay]

Stan Tracey reminds a little bit of Monks' percussive approach to the piano... ..isn't he British?

[feedchristianstolion]

ben webster,1964, the year before i was born. 'twas a great year; then i came along....

[MooPotPie]

There's a better version of Ben playing this with the Vince Guaraldi Trio recorded for Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual program of Jan. 4, 1962. Vince's solo is a thing of sheer beauty and harmonic finesse which makes this Stan fellow here sound like a stiff amateur who doesn't know the chord changes.

[Miloshevits1]

Awwwwww, i can't believei haven't heard of this piano player before. He's brilliant! Confused the fuck out of the 1964 audience though haha.

[Musicians Vanguard]

Yeah its Stan Tracey he's one of the few players who can play like Monk. Check him out.

[Joshua Hemsworth]

God that piano player hurts my ears.

[Alessandro Lanzoni]

I think the pianist was liking Monk in that period

[Blackgeoff1]

Beautiful! One of my favourite Billy Strayhorn songs.. (I've always liked the name - "stray horn") Nothing stray about Big Ben's horn though.. what a sound, no-one sounded like this guy . One of my first jazz albums years ago was the classic Gerry Mulligan meets Ben Webster, and they played this tune to perfection..

Great posting

[Jean Ely]

Thank you-- Gorgeous! Love Ben Webster, and I love Billy Strayhorn (sp?). The Edward Hopper of music. Thanks again.