Jacintha - Here's to Ben: A Vocal Tribute to Ben Webster

Already a tremendous figure in her native Singapore, Jacintha has been turning heads and ears in this country as well. With an outstanding singing style on par with the greats, Jacintha will enrapture you in a perpetual state of musical bliss! (We're not ones for overstatement either.) Jacintha debuts in the U.S. with a tribute to the legendary tenor saxophone player: Ben Webster. The songs have been specially selected to reflect this premise, i.e. they are mostly great vocal standards and/or ballads that have been recorded by Webster many times and are thus associated with his particular style and name. Some of these songs like Stardust, How Long Has This Been Going On, Georgia and Our Love is Here to Stay, Over The Rainbow are Webster classics. This limited edition 45rpm was recorded at the famous OceanWay Recording Studios in Los Angeles, this recording is all-analogue, direct to two-track. The recording was made on an ATR-100 tape machine with BASF-900 1/4’ high resolution tape running at 30ips. Only vintage microphones were used including the Neumann M-49 tube microphone set-up for Jacintha’s voice. The other microphones used (for the musicians) included Neumann M-50 and U-47. The recording and mastering cabling for this session was supplied by Audioquest (Lapis). Mastered by Bernie Grundman direct from the original analogue masters on his highly modified and customized tube driven Sculley cutting lathe. Musicians: Jacintha, vocals Teddy Edwards, tenor saxophone Kei Akagi, piano Darek Oles, bass Larance Marable, drums 1. Georgia on my Mind 2. Our Love is Here to Stay 3. Tenderly 4. Somewhere Over the Rainbow 5. How Long Has this Been Going On? 6. Stardust 7. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 8. Pennies From Heaven 9. Danny Boy 10. The Look of Love