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A superb tenor saxophonist and a fine clarinetist and alto player, Benny Water's career spans the growth and development of jazz and American popular music. His huge tone and swaggering tenor style were honored in the swing era, as was his darting clarinet and tart alto approaches. Waters played piano and reed instruments as a child, then worked with Charlie Miller from 1918 to 1921. He studied at the New England Conservatory and later became a teacher. Waters recorded with King Oliver and Clarence Williams in the '20s and '30s, while writing arrangements for Charlie Johnson. For a few months, he also played in Roy Milton's R&B orchestra. Waters worked with traditional jazz leader Jimmy Archey in 1949, and opted to stay in Europe during a group tour. He settled in Paris and remained there until the end of the '60s. He was a regular at the club La Cigale. Waters was a festival favorite throughout Europe in the '70s and '80s, and paid some visits to New York in the '80s.

The Opus 3 label needs no introduction to most audiophiles as this Swedish company has been around for a long time - issuing high quality performances with amazing sound to appeal not only to the audio freak among us, but to music collectors as well.

This listing is for a rare, out of print audiophile CD title - a FACTORY SEALED CD PRESSED and ISSUED by Opus 3 Music of a highly collectible title from the Opus 3 CD catalog, featuring -

Benny Waters

CD Title -

Live At The Pawnshop

Track Listing -

  1. Out of Nowhere
  2. Some Of These Days
  3. Summertime
  4. Ziggin' And a Zaggin'
  5. Cherokee
  6. Sophisticated Lady
  7. Dark Eyes
  8. I Can't Get Started
  9. Indiana
  10. Blues Amore

Performers on this disc -

Benny Waters, soprano, alto & tenor saxophones and clarinet

Bjorn Milder, piano

Goran Stachewsky, guitar

Goran Lind, double bass

Krister Ohlsson, drums

The CD is from the rare OPUS 3 Music series of out of print, Audiophile CDs.

  • CD catalog # CD 19901
  • CD made in SWEDEN
  • CD issued in 2005

The CD, JEWEL CASE AND INSERTS are all assumed to be in MINT overall condition as this item is actually BRAND NEW and FACTORY SEALED!

This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Do not let this rarity slip by!