Ben Webster Archive

Mark Murphy – Midnight Mood

Mark Murphy – Midnight Mood

A delicious session of top flight vocal inventiveness  Mark Murphy – Midnight Mood – MPS0212419MSW 36:59**** ( Mark Murphy – vocals; Jimmy Deuchar – trumpet; Ake Persson – trombone; Derek Humble – alto saxophone; Ronnie Scott – tenor saxophone; Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone + flute; Francy Boland – piano; Jimmy Woode – bass; Kenny […]

Best of the Year Discs for 2016

Best of the Year Discs for 2016

      Best of the Year Discs for 2016 = The 12 Multichannel Hi-Res Discs of the Month for 2016  CLASSICAL (incl. HI-RES), CLASSICAL REISSUES, CLASSICAL VINYL & PURE AUDIO BLU-RAY KATI AGÓCS: The Debrecen Passion – BMOP Sound 1046 American First Piano Sonatas – Licad, p. – Danacord * ”For the Beauty of […]

**********  Ben Webster – The Warm Moods  ********** With orch. arr. & cond. by Johnny Richards – Reprise/Pure Pleasure vinyl

********** Ben Webster – The Warm Moods ********** With orch. arr. & cond. by Johnny Richards – Reprise/Pure Pleasure vinyl

A wonderful long and intimate vinyl session with Ben Webster. * Ben Webster – The Warm Moods [TrackList follows] – With orch. arr. & cond. by Johnny Richards – Reprise (also Discovery) R9-2001 (1960)/ Pure Pleasure (2015) [11/6/15] *****: What a sound! I had thought Stan Getz was my favorite saxist, but now I’m sure it’s […]

Editorial for October 2012

Editorial for October 2012

The October drawing/giveaway is the award of a luxury 45 rpm double vinyl album from Original Recordings Group to six different AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers. All you need to do to be considered is to fill out our simple non-intrusive email-protected form. The six ultimate-fidelity albums feature the audiophile classical album Espana, the Lanchberry ballet La Fille Mal Gardee, Astrud Gilberto, […]

Editorial for December 2011

Editorial for December 2011

To be one of the lucky seven readers to receive the pair of Analogue Productions reissue SACDs this month, you will need to register on the site using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form. The first SACD is Gentle Ben, a 1972 session in Barcelona—one of the unique and rich-sounding saxist’s last recordings, together with Catalan […]