no Surrender

THE COMPLETE WORKS is a 3 cd digipak collection devoted to the '80's output of Mel Galley's supergroup, Phenomena. Each disc features the complete album and selected demo versions and outtakes for each record…

Very good album, great guitars and good melodies. Great melodic hard rock album and one of the only places you can hear Jeff Fenholt singing rock, so it has good historical value. This album has been rereleased with no less than five different covers.

Ben Webster was considered one of the "big three" of swing tenors along with Coleman Hawkins (his main influence) and Lester Young. He had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps (with his own distinctive growls) yet on ballads he would turn into a pussy cat and play with warmth and sentiment. After violin lessons as a child, Webster learned how to play rudimentary piano (his neighbor Pete Johnson taught him to play blues). But after Budd Johnson showed him some basics on the saxophone, Webster played sax in the Young Family Band (which at the time included Lester Young). He had stints with Jap Allen and Blanche Calloway (making his recording debut with the latter) before joining Bennie Moten's Orchestra in time to be one of the stars on a classic session in 1932…