Recordings
April, 1974
Ben Webster, the legendary tenor-sax man, died last fall in self-imposed exile in Europe. Shortly before his death. Denver free-lance writer Rachel Morris, while traveling in Denmark, tracked Webster down to his Copenhagen apartment and talked him into sitting still for an interview. Her report follows:Webster sat in his shiny blue pajamas on the edge of his unmade bed, counting off on his fingers the jazz giants who were gone. Johnny Hodges, Coleman Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson ... he seemed nea...
