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''The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight'' is a 1975 jazz album featuring a 1956 session between pianist Art Tatum and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, with Red Callender on double bass and Bill Douglass on drums. The session was originally released on a Verve Records album produced by Norman Granz in 1958, but Granz re-acquired the masters in the 1970s after the album was allowed to go out of print. He reissued the material as one of a series of eight Group Masterpieces featuring Tatum in collaboration with other artists, also issuing it as part of a boxed set, ''The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces''. The album has subsequently been reissued on CD, including a January 31, 1992 version with bonus tracks. The album was critically well-received, with critics singling out the mesh of Webster's tone with Tatum's elaborate piano. The album is listed in several volumes as among the best in jazz and is recommended by the Music Library Association as an important piece for music libraries. ==History== Top-billed performers Tatum and Webster were well-established figures in their 40s when they came together on September 11, 1956 for this production.〔Ratliff, 110.〕 According to Ben Ratliff in ''Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings'', Tatum was known for virtuoso solo performance, while Webster had mellowed from his days with Duke Ellington.〔Ratliff, 110-11.〕 Notwithstanding the differences between the players, they meshed, a success in collaboration liner-note author Benny Green attributed to Webster's tone and professionalism.〔Ratliff, 111.〕 Critic Scott Yanow agrees that "the combination works very well" and also praises Webster for "wisely" emphasizing "the beauty of his tone." This was among the last recordings of Tatum, who died on November 5 of that year.〔 The session was originally released in 1958 on an LP produced by Norman Granz for Verve Records under the title ''Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet''. By 1971, Granz had already attempted to gain access to this and his other out-of-print collaborations with Art Tatum from Verve, even offering to buy the masters. He acquired the rights after the 1973 formation of his own label, Pablo Records, and reissued those albums in 1975 under the series titles ''The Tatum Group Masterpieces'' and ''The Tatum Solo Masterpieces'' as individual albums and also as two boxed sets.〔 One track from the session, "All the Things You Are", was later included in the 12-track CD ''The Best of the Pablo Group Masterpieces''. The album was reissued on January 31, 1992 with bonus tracks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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