Music for Loving

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Music for Loving
Music for Loving Norgran.jpg
Studio album by
Ben Webster
Released1954
RecordedMarch 30, May 28 and December 15, 1954
StudioFine Sound, New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Norgran
Verve
Producer Norman Granz
Ben Webster chronology
King of the Tenors
(1954)		Music for Loving
(1954)		 The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet
(1956)
Music with Feeling cover
Music with Feeling Norgran.jpg

Music for Loving is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster with tracks recorded in 1954 and released by Norgran in 1955. [1] The album was reissued in 1957 by Verve as Sophisticated Lady. [2] In 1996 Verve released a double CD compiling the album with another Norgran LP, Music with Feeling, and one by Harry Carney, Harry Carney with Strings which was first released by Clef. [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]

Reviewing the compilation Allmusic's Stephen Cook stated: "the two-disc Music With Feeling delivers over two hours' worth of incredible ballad interpretations. Webster, of course, made his name with many an after-hours gem, and he predictably shines here amidst the lush yet tasteful orchestral charts penned by Ralph Burns, Gerald Wilson, and Billy Strayhorn ... Forget all those bachelor-pad compilations and give this collection a spin at your next cocktail party". [3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected the double CD reissue as part of its suggested Core Collection. [5] [6]

It was voted number 2 in the 50 All-Time Overlooked Jazz Albums from Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums . [7]

Track listing

Original LP

Side A

  1. "All Too Soon" (Duke Ellington, Carl Sigman) – 4:45
  2. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:21
  3. "It Happens to Be Me" (Arthur Kent, Sammy Gallop) – 3:21
  4. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:23
  5. "You're Mine, You" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:07

Side B

  1. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:43
  2. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) – 4:46
  3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:22
  4. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 3:04
  5. "Love's Away" (Ben Webster) – 3:19

1995 Double CD Compilation

Disc One

  1. "Chelsea Bridge" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:56 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  2. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 4:38 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  3. "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) – 3:41 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  4. "Teach Me Tonight" (Gene De Paul, Sammy Cahn) – 4:03 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  5. "Until Tonight" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 4:10 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  6. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 4:32 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  7. "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:06 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  8. "Early Autumn" (Stan Rhodes, Barbara Belle) – 4:49 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  9. "My Greatest Mistake" (Jack Fulton, Jack "Bones" O'Brien) – 3:35 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  10. "What Am I Here For" (Duke Ellington) – 3:57 Originally released on Music with Feeling
  11. "All Too Soon" (Ellington, Sigman) – 4:45
  12. "Love Is Here to Stay" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:21
  13. "It Happens to Be Me" (Kent, Gallop) – 3:21
  14. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:43
  15. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) – 4:46
  16. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:22
  17. "Love Is Here to Stay" [alternative take] (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:17 Previously unissued
  18. "Love Is Here to Stay" [alternative take] (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:16 Previously unissued

Disc Two

  1. "Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 4:46 Previously unissued
  2. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 3:37 Previously unissued
  3. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Parish) – 4:32 Previously unissued
  4. "Under a Blanket of Blue" (Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 3:17 Previously unissued
  5. "Stars Fell on Alabama" [alternate take] (Perkins, Parish) – 4:40 Previously unissued
  6. "Under a Blanket of Blue" [alternate take] (Livingston, Neiburg, Symes) – 3:31 Previously unissued
  7. "Under a Blanket of Blue" [alternate take] (Livingston, Neiburg, Symes) – 3:20 Previously unissued
  8. "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:23
  9. "You're Mine, You" (Green, Heyman) – 3:07
  10. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Mills, Parish) – 3:04
  11. "Love's Away" (Webster) – 3:19
  12. "Almost Like Being in Love" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 3:59 Originally issued on Tenor Saxes various artists compilation Norgran MGN 1034
  13. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Victor Young, Ned Washington, Bing Crosby) – 5:48 Originally released on Harry Carney with Strings
  14. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 4:48 Originally released on Harry Carney with Strings
  15. "We're in Love Again" (Harry Carney) – 3:41 Originally released on Harry Carney with Strings
  16. "Chalmeau" (Carney) – 3:38 Originally released on Harry Carney with Strings
  17. "Moonlight on the Ganges" (Sherman Myers, Chester Wallace) – 3:41 Originally released on Harry Carney with Strings
  18. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 4:17 Originally released on Harry Carney with Strings
  19. "My Fantasy" (Carney) – 4:08 Originally released on Harry Carney with Strings
  20. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:22 Originally released on Harry Carney with Strings

Personnel

March 30, 1954 at Fine Sound, New York City: LP - A:4 & 5 and B:4 & 5, CD - 2:8 to 11

May 28, 1954 at Fine Sound, New York City: LP - A:1-3, CD - 1:1, 11-13, 17 & 18 and 2:12

December 13, 1954 at Fine Sound, New York City: Harry Carney with Strings CD - 2:13-20

December 15, 1954 at Fine Sound, New York City: LP - B:1-3, CD - 1:2 & 14-16

February 3, 1955 at Fine Sound, New York City: CD:2:1-7

September 9, 1955 in New York City: CD - 1:3-10

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References

  1. ↑ Jazzdisco: Norgran Records Catalog: 1000 series accessed May 17, 2019
  2. ↑ Jazzdisco: Verve Records Catalog: Popular 2000 series accessed May 17, 2019
  3. 1 2 3 Cook, Stephen. Art Tatum / Ben Webster: Art Tatum & Ben Webster Quartet – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN   978-0857125958.
  5. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Ben Webster". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1478. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
  6. ↑ Penguin Guide to Jazz: Core Collection List, May, 15, 201
  7. ↑ Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 26. ISBN   0-7535-0493-6.
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