Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
Studio album by
Released1960
RecordedNovember 3 and December 2, 1959
GenreCool jazz/Swing
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Gerry Mulligan chronology
Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges
(1960)
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
(1960)
The Concert Jazz Band
(1960)
Ben Webster chronology
Ben Webster and Associates
(1960)
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
(1960)
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic
DownBeat
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, also simply called Meets Ben Webster, is a 1960 album featuring the November 3 - December 2 studio sessions of American jazz musicians Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster. In a 2003 review, All That Jazz described this album as the most significant of Gerry Mulligan's work partnering other legendary figures of jazz. The album, as a "classic album from two giants", is featured in NPR's "Basic Jazz Record Library". Originally released on the Verve label, the album was reissued by the label many times (as well as by Mobile Fidelity) before being re-released in an expanded edition called Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Complete) by Verve in 1997.

In 2000, it was voted number 448 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. He stated it is "a fine example of how two seemingly disparate musicians can perform together superbly."