Verve has one of those best-of things on Webster. The killer, fucking killer, cut is this thing from '44 with Sid Catlett on drums, "Linger Awhile." It's, like, a textbook on jazz, with Catlett doing these incredible breaks. Webster doesn't start playing until a minute or so into the recording. It's simply one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. There's another version BW did earlier, I think around '40, with Ellington's drummer, Sonny Greer, playing drums, and the difference is incredible--Greer's hardly there at all, none of the flash of Catlett.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)