Dave Gelly 

Ben Webster/Stan Tracey: Soho Nights Vol 2 – review

This 1964 collaboration by the tenor saxophonist and the British pianist is a thrilling meeting of musical minds, writes Dave Gelly
  
  


The empathy between these two sounds so deep that they could have been playing together for years. But Webster, veteran tenor saxophone star of the Ellington orchestra, and idiosyncratic British pianist Tracey had only just met when this was recorded at Ronnie Scott's in 1964. It's a musical dialogue – sometimes in accord, sometimes argumentative, but never dull or routine. Webster must have played Chelsea Bridge thousands of times before, but rarely more sensitively accompanied. This is Vol 2, but it was actually recorded three years earlier than Vol 1. They're both classics.

 

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