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50th Birthday Surprise
I got this album a few years ago from good friends as a 50th Birthday surprise. Because the music on the disc was from the era of my birth, it was as good a gift as I could have hoped for. Three discs of great jazz played by great players. Enjoy.
Published on July 23, 2008 by Jeffrey L. Turner
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Only Chelsea Bridge
Out of this entire double CD, there is only on 3 minute piece of perfection, never to be duplicated-good art can be like that, a miniature, its symmetry studied over and over.
The song is "Chelsea Bridge." For all the decades that Ben Webster played it, in big bands, with strings, with guest artists, in Europe, he never quite hit that magical moment recorded live at...
Published on July 14, 2009 by Neal Horwitz
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50th Birthday Surprise, July 23, 2008
This review is from: Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years (Audio CD)
I got this album a few years ago from good friends as a 50th Birthday surprise. Because the music on the disc was from the era of my birth, it was as good a gift as I could have hoped for. Three discs of great jazz played by great players. Enjoy.
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Only Chelsea Bridge, July 14, 2009
This review is from: Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years (Audio CD)
Out of this entire double CD, there is only on 3 minute piece of perfection, never to be duplicated-good art can be like that, a miniature, its symmetry studied over and over.
The song is "Chelsea Bridge." For all the decades that Ben Webster played it, in big bands, with strings, with guest artists, in Europe, he never quite hit that magical moment recorded live at Newport. It was him and Billy Strayhorn, who wrote it:chillingly beautiful. Strays piano is sparse and shimmering,The Brute plays his lush vibratto as always, just more so-if that is possible. That's how it goes on occasion, literally hitting all the right notes. I used to have the album, and ordered the CD for that one song. Yes, there are some other nice tunes, but it's more a grab bag than not. A lot to spend for one song, admittedly, but how much is perfection worth?
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