SORRY - SOLD OUT

AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Analogue Productions - AAPJ 040 - 200 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue 

Mastered By Kevin Gray  at CoHearent Audio - Pressed at QRP

Ensayo ENY-301 - Limited Edition

"...Webster's trademark sensual sound is on full display and, of course, he's backed by Montoliu, an outstanding Spanish piano veteran who accompanied all the great jazz artists passing through Europe...This is one of the first releases by Analogue Productions pressed at their new in-house pressing plant Quality Record Pressings, and the record bears a close resemblance in appearance to records from Pallas - beautiful looking and perfectly quiet...The superb 200-gram LP comes in a rice paper sleeve and jacket of heavy cardboard...Highest Recommendation." Recording = 10/10; Music = 8.5/10 — Dennis D. Davis, Hi-Fi+,

That rich, humid, giant sax tone blooms like on few other Webster recordings. "The soundstage is intimate and inviting, Webster's horn beautifully captured with sweet, rich overtornes, the bass liquid, chugging, and textured, piano and drums easy and natural. As with each title, the music emerges from QRP's beautifully flat and wonderfully silent surfaces with that much more "there-ness." Sonics = 4/5 — Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound

Ah, that unique, highly individual sound of Ben Webster’s sax, and nearly an hour’s worth of it—in top-flight sonics ! The original session dates from November of 1972 in Barcelona, Spain, and Ben is front and center thruout – his every note and breath standing out in 3D. Both the original recording job in Barcelona and the remastering by Kevin Gray  are excellent..." - Audiophile Audition

Although many of Ben Webster's European sessions suffered when compared to his American ones, this outing is one of the exceptions, due in no small part to the fluid piano work of Tete Montoliu. Supported by a rhythm section of Eric Peter on bass and Peer Wyboris on drums, both Webster and Montoliu have plenty of room to breathe, and the result is a wonderful and pleasant set highlighted by the opening track, "Ben's Blues," and an easy, elegant version of "Sweet Georgia Brown." Webster's trademark breathy tenor sax tone is in full supply here, but the real revelation is Montoliu, who proves to be a marvelous jazz pianist, making Gentle Ben somewhat of an overlooked gem.

There's no shortage of Webster's trademark breathy, fat tenor tone here. In fact, given the sparse arrangement, his rich, humid, giant sax blooms like on very few other recordings. Highlights include "Ben's Blues," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "The Man I Love" and "Don't Blame Me."

Ben Webster Gentle Ben 

1.  Ben's Blues
2.  The Man I Love
3.  My Nephew Bent
4.  How Long This Has Been Going On
5.  Sweet Georgia Brown
6.  Don't Blame Me
7.  Did You Call
8.  Barcelona Shout