some essays ::
“Using an enormous tone, a breathy, enveloping vibrato, and terrific glissandos, he constructed castles of sound that were romantic but never sentimental, luxuriant but tasteful, yearning but free of self-pity.”
⏤ Whitney Balliet on Ben Webster, 1973
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