Soulville

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Soulville
Soulville.jpg
Studio album by
Released1957
RecordedOctober 15, 1957
Genre Jazz
Length48:45
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
Ben Webster chronology
Trav'lin Light
(1957)
Soulville
(1957)
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
(1957)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
MusicHound 4/5 [3]
Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]

Soulville is a 1957 album by swing tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, recording a session from October 15, 1957, which Webster played with the Oscar Peterson Trio and accompanied by Stan Levey.

Contents

Reception

This session is described by AllMusic as "one of the highlights" of Webster's "golden '50s run". [6] The album was reissued in the early 1990s on CD with three bonus tracks, which include rare recordings of Webster playing piano. [7] When it was remastered in 24-bit for a 2003 edition, additional photographs and new liner notes were also included. [8]

Track listing

  1. "Soulville" (Ben Webster) 8:03
  2. "Late Date" (Webster) 7:13
  3. "Time on My Hands" (Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Vincent Youmans) 4:16
  4. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) 8:26
  5. "Where Are You?" (Lew Pollack, Lou Davis) 4:41
  6. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) 4:29
  7. "Ill Wind (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) 3:30

Bonus tracks

  1. "Who?" (Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) 2:56
  2. "Boogie Woogie" (Webster) 3:06
  3. "Roses of Picardy" (Frederick E. Weatherly, Haydn Wood) 2:05

Personnel

Performance

Production

References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. Larkin, Colin, ed. (2002). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise 4th ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1314.
  3. Holtje, Steve; Lee, Nancy Ann (1998). MusicHound: The Essential Album Guide. Schirmer. p. 1176.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 1356.
  5. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 206. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  6. Soulville at AllMusic
  7. Soulville Verve Music Group. Accessed September 18, 2007.
  8. Soulville (Bonus Tracks) at AllMusic