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Ben Webster. Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. [1] Career. Early life and career. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, [1] he studied violin, learned how to play blues on the piano from Pete Johnson, and received saxophone lessons from Budd Johnson. [2] .
Ben Webster, alla nascita Benjamin Francis Webster aka "the Brute" - "frog" (Kansas City, 27 marzo 1909 – Amsterdam, 20 settembre 1973), è stato un sassofonista statunitense. È stato, insieme a Coleman Hawkins e Lester Young, uno dei tre più importanti sassofonisti di estrazione swing.
19 set 2021 · listen to Jazz by "Ben Webster" with the album "Stormy Weather" from 1965.
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Ben Webster (born March 27, 1909, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.—died Sept. 20, 1973, Amsterdam, Neth.) was an American jazz musician, considered one of the most distinctive of his generation, noted for the beauty of his tenor saxophone tone and for his melodic inventiveness.
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Ben Webster, nome completo Benjamin Francis Webster aka "the Brute" - "frog" (Kansas City, 27 marzo 1909 – Amsterdam, 20 settembre 1973), è stato un sassofonista statunitense. È stato, insieme a Coleman Hawkins e Lester Young, uno dei tre più importanti tenorsassofonisti di estrazione swing.
26 mar 2022 · Ben Webster (1909-73), perhaps the least acknowledged of the great jazz tenor saxophonists, was fortunate enough to have a varied 40-year recording career. His ballads were immensely tender and his blues and faster tunes could be nearly violent in their intensity.
Born in Kansas City as Benjamin Francis Webster, and originally influenced stylistically by Coleman Hawkins, Webster was one of the most distinctive stylists on tenor saxophone in jazz history. As a mature soloist, with his huge, bullying, sometimes rasping tone in up-tempo performances, and a tender, breathy lyricism on ballads, he could never ...
