Billie Holiday & Ben Webster

Use headphones or earphones. "We'll Be Together Again" from Billie Holiday's Verve recordings (1956, monaural). This track reminds me of such albums as "Helen Merrill With Clifford Brown" and "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman." Ben Webster plays like another singer.

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• 'Billie
• Holiday'
• 'Ben
• Webster'
• 'Harry
• Sweets
• Edison'
• 'Barney
• Kessel'
• 'We'll
• Be
• Together
• Again'
• 'Verve'
• 'open
• baffle'

[helluvagun]

There's a few more other musicians on the track - sadly overlooked!

I'm sorry, but bearing in mind they are not mentioned, I don't care very much for personal comments like:

This track reminds me of such albums as "Helen Merrill With Clifford Brown" and "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman." Ben Webster plays like another singer.

[openbaffle3]

@helluvagun

I appreciate the other musicians of course. That's why I gathered pictures that featured (hopefully) all the musicians playing in the track. Nevertheless, it seems clear to me that Ben Webster is the main soloist.

[carabocawibo]

Thanks for posting this track - open baffle3 (reference to Ben Webster's mouthpiece??) beauty of these two voices dueting throughout the track...

if you listen to this piece its no wonder that Webster's playing was once described as 'majestically sighing'...

[openbaffle3]

@carabocawibo

Thanks for the apt comment. I didn't know the phrase 'majestically sighing.' We may also sigh to listen to this track.

It begins with a call-and-response duet between Billie and Harry (and then Barney). Ben enters as a creative soloist like another singer, and then participates in the call-and-response ensemble performed by the sensitive accompanists.

PS: Open baffle is a form of loud speakers like the ones you see in this video.

[peacequiet]

@wojbmusicdirector

How beautifully said.

I discovered Billie when I was 17. My stepdad had a buddy over

to play records with my mom and stepdad. He carried in a box of

records and when I heard Billie for the 1st time,I got a chill.

I'm now 63 now and still get that chill hearing a song of Billie's when I

haven't heard her for a while. What perfection. What feeling and sadness that

comes right out at you.

[wojbmusicdirector]

@LEDinardi Correct except Joe Mondragon on bass for this session...these mid-to-late 50s Verve sessions are some of the most achingly, sensually, beautifully exquisite recordings Billie ever made - near perfect combination of musicians, and of course Billie and Ben and Sweets passing the conversation around like the old friends they were...sweet Jesus this is as good as it gets.

[LEDinardi]

Guys probably are Billie Holiday (vo), Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp), Ben Webster (ts), Jimmy Rowles (p), Barney Kessel (g), Red Mitchell (sb), Alvin Stoller (dm), as per Radio Recorders YBC2929-4, Verve MGV-8329

[Teddyb1939]

Good stuff, 2 greats plus a who's who of jazz. what could be better.!!

[TheAlterEar]

THANK YOU!

[wellfleet1]

Turn it up and revel in it!

[teflonarius]

the queen of jazz with a grand duke with her

awesome

[andyb2707]

Sublime - thanks so much!

[LadyKubrick]

stupenda,grazie

[nweachus]

Absolutely brilliant. Nice quality recording. Thanks for posting...

[sirjuandabicho]

Maravilloso, muchas gracias por compartirlo.

[carabocawibo]

Hi, I read that line in some jazz book a while ago..

The exchange Between Billie and the other soloists is beautiful too!!

Didn't know that open baffle is a loud speaker.. Open baffle is a part of a mouthpiece, the flat bit starting from the tip, when it's open or broad, it projects a rather bright sound - like Ben Webster's maybe?? Take care, CW