Ben Webster – In Hot House

Ben Webster was one of the big-three of jazz in the roaring twenties. He trumpeted his way into the limelight with Duke Ellington, later inspired Coltrane to bebop rodeo and, as a sideman, tap-danced his way from Holiday to Tatum to Fitzgerald into every role imaginable with a tenor sax in his hands. Anyone who reads his Wikipedia page will find enough material to fill twelve novels. One of them is set in Holland, which is where »In Hot House« comes from. Tidal Waves is putting out the record exclusively – for the first time since a bootleg in 1979.