Ben Webster. Practicing on his saxophone in Front Street Studio, New York, 1964

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Ben Webster practicing on his saxophone in Front Street Studio, New York, 1964

Ben Webster (by name Benjamin Francis Webster) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
A native of Kansas City, Missouri, he studied violin, learned how to play blues on the piano from Pete Johnson, and received saxophone lessons from Budd Johnson. He recorded with Blanche Calloway and became a member of the Bennie Moten Orchestra with Count Basie, Hot Lips Page, and Walter Page. For the rest of the 1930s, he played in bands led by Willie Bryant, Benny Carter, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, Andy Kirk, and Teddy Wilson.

b. March 27, 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri.
d. September 20, 1973 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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