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Ben Webster and Associates is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Verve label.

As the saying goes, a parade is just a mob until the band shows up. It’s the music that gives the moment its shape, its future, its meaning.

Songs for Sleeping Dogs is just that. In 2022 a puppy was born that would change the course of history.

Yowzers is a new album by Chicago composer, improvisor, instrumentalist and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay.

AVID Jazz here presents three classic Ben Webster albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. 'Blue Saxophones'… Take the Oscar Peterson Trio with Alvin Stoller on drums, add two of the greatest tenor saxophonists who ever lived, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster and voila… you have Blue Saxophones! Two masters together in 1957, one (Hawkins) a huge influence on the other (Webster), but now, both very much their own men. As the final paragraph of Charles Fox's liner notes attests 'This is tenor playing in the grandest of manners, unashamedly romantic, even sensuous, with both musicians constructing their solos firmly and audaciously'. 'Soulville'… Ben is once again joined by the Oscar Peterson Trio for another 1957 date. This time sitting in on drums is Stan Levey, in Bens own words 'he's improved since I heard him on the Street years ago.' Ben of course is a huge fan of Peterson…..'the guy can play a lot as a soloist but when it comes time for you to play a solo, he plays for you'. 'The Soul Of Ben Webster'… Here we find Ben joined by fellow tenor man Harold Ashby alongside among others Art Farmer on trumpet and Jimmy Jones on piano in a 1958 blowing date.

Ben Babbitt (Weyes Blood, HTDW) supplies a subtly intoxicating, darkly streaked soundtrack for ‘Paris Window’, a feature film by musician and director Amanda Kramer. RIYL Huerco S, Vangelis, Dean Hurley, Bobby Krlic A strong batch of L.A.-shadowed noir reflecting the hypnagogic themes of Kramer’s film, ‘Paris Window’ unfolds between scenes of suspenseful romance, smoke-curling choral pads, and sparing eruptions of brittle bare bones percussion and abrasive digital noise that will turn your living/listening space into a far more cinematic place.

The music of Ben Frost is about contrast; influenced as much by Classical Minimalism as by Punk Rock and Metal, Frost's throbbing guitar-based textures emerge from nothing and slowly coalesce into huge, forbidding forms that often eschew conventional structures in favor of the inevitable unfoldings of vast mechanical systems.

Mas que nada [ˈmaˈkiˈnadˈ] (bras.-port.) is a song composed in 1963 by Jorge Ben, which became known outside Brazil mainly through the version of Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66.

Recorded at the most storied of all jazz venues, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard is the vibrant new album from master saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel featuring a world-class rhythm section — Gerald Clayton (piano), Linda May Han Oh (bass) and Obed Calvaire (drums)