Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet

reissued as The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight, Pablo, 1975 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.