Paul Webster
The Jimmie Lunceford band became known for some of the notes Paul Webster hit on his trumpet; documentation of his close to a decade as a featured soloist on the Lunceford bandstand is encyclopedic. Listeners who praise high-note trumpet blasters by endowing them with the power to raise the dead should be advised that Webster was actually gainfully employed as an undertaker in Kansas City prior to making it on the jazz scene. This artist should not be confused with a songwriter prolific enough to make this trumpeter's published accomplishments seem like scraps of papyrus in the wind. Both men are coincidentally named Paul Francis Webster, although the songwriter seems to have made the most use of the middle name in credits. Both men also died in New York, although in different decades. The trumpeter's life was nearly 20 years shorter, Webster riffing past the respiratory illness that finally brought him down with a regular schedule of live gigs and recording.
His uncle Sam Ford started Webster off on trumpet, and by the mid-'20s the lad was gigging in an amorous-sounding outfit fronted by Clarence Lover. During college he was part of a Memphis-based combo that identified itself as the Boston Serenaders. Embalming was Webster's initial choice of careers after graduating from Fisk University, yet his choice of Kansas City to begin that career led to employment as a trumpeter with George E. Lee, Bennie Moten, and many others. He was in and out of Moten's groups during the early '30s and also began his initial collaborations with Lunceford during that period. The trumpeter was finally finished with the latter big band come 1944, then began working with the entertaining Cab Calloway, once again a source for attention-getting solos well into the '50s. Webster also stocked the pages of his datebook courtesy of bandleaders Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Sy Oliver, and Pérez Prado. In his later years Webster combined his gigging with a position in the United States immigration service.
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Sax in the night
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Caravage am 01.01.1997
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Help (Alex M Remix)
Dance - Erschienen bei Damaged Records am 13.10.2023
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Valhalla
Trance - Erschienen bei Future Sound of Egypt am 19.08.2013
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Ignite
Trance - Erschienen bei Who's Afraid Of 138?! am 19.05.2023
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Forever Today
Trance - Erschienen bei Fraction Records am 08.11.2011
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Corruption / Cut Off (Remixes)
Dance - Erschienen bei Captivating Sounds am 09.02.2009
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High Voltage
Trance - Erschienen bei Captivating Sounds am 09.08.2010
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The Wolf / Vibrations (Original Mix)
Trance - Erschienen bei Captivating Sounds am 20.07.2009
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Time / Nailed / High Voltage (Remixed)
Trance - Erschienen bei Captivating Sounds am 17.09.2012
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Watch It Burn
Trance - Erschienen bei Who's Afraid Of 138?! am 04.06.2014
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Worldwide Trance Sounds 2010, Vol. 4 (Mixed By Paul Webster)
Trance - Erschienen bei Armada Music Bundles am 20.08.2010
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Snake
Paul Webster & McAree & Clancy
Dance - Erschienen bei UNRSTRCTD Recordings am 13.11.2017
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Snake
Paul Webster & McAree & Clancy
Dance - Erschienen bei UNRSTRCTD Recordings am 05.12.2016
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Engaged
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei Fraction Zero am 10.03.2008
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The White Isle
Trance - Erschienen bei Fraction Records am 11.02.2013
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Nailed / Cut Off (Original Mix)
Trance - Erschienen bei Captivating Sounds am 14.07.2008
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Corruption
Trance - Erschienen bei Captivating Sounds am 07.05.2007
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