Ben Webster Tenor Sax Legend: Live and Intimate Shanachie 2009 . Although he looked like a frog or a bullmastiff (hence his nicknames Frog and The Brute), saxophonist Ben Webster was splendidly ...

DES MOINES - Holding a 1-0 lead for 72 minutes against the highest-scoring team in the state was always going to be a tough ask. Ben Webster made sure Williamsburg couldn't make it to halftime ...

Album Review Ben Webster: In Norway. by Chris Mosey September 10, 2013. Ben Webster refused to fly. When he visited Norway from Denmark, his adopted homeland, he went by boat and when he got there ...

Unless you already know a tremendous amount about saxophonist Ben Webster, you'll learn so much from Frank Buchmann-Moller's new biography. Unless I'm mistaken, you'll soon want to hear more of the ...

This is a small piece of jazz history. In January 1965, Ben Webster, newly arrived in Europe from America, was working out where to settle down.This concert shows why he decided on Copenhagen. The ...

This month celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of jazz's titans: Ben Webster. His career spanned over 40 years, from being a journeyman in the Ellington orchestra to becoming one of ...

On Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson (Verve, 1960), Webster brings clarity to his choices in this song, and a naked yearning to his sound. Even if you don't know the lyrics "you'd be hers if only she ...

I accidentally lucked into the music of Ben Webster while sifting through the "W" section of some dusty used record bin years ago. The cover looked cool, with its classic profile shot of an unsmiling, ...

If you happened to live in Copenhagen during that period, then you had a strong chance of catching the great Ben Webster performing live in a random club, or perhaps on a radio broadcast. Webster ...

Ben Webster refused to fly. When he visited Norway from Denmark, his adopted homeland, he went by boat and when he got there would blame his somewhat uncertain gait on his "sea legs," rather than the ...