Ben Webster/Stan Tracey: Soho Nights Vol 2 – review

(Resteamed)When Stan Tracey was the house pianist at Ronnie Scott's in the 1960s, he creatively accompanied most of American jazz's biggest stars, including saxophonists Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins and the former Duke Ellington Orchestra legend Ben Webster, whose monumentally powerful sound, sly timing and teeming imagination are heard with Tracey's trio on this December 1964 live show. Webster swerves, hoots, brays and booms his way through a mid-tempo opener on the swing standby C ...

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