{{about||the Rick Price album|Rick Price#Studio albums}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Soulville | type = studio | artist = Ben Webster | cover = Soulville.jpg | alt = | released = 1957 | recorded = October 15, 1957 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 48:45 | label = Verve | producer = Norman Granz | prev_title = Trav'lin Light | prev_year = 1957 | next_title = Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster | next_year = 1957 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r149987|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> |rev2 = ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Larkin |editor-first=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=Virgin Books |year=2002 |pages=1314 |edition=Concise 4th}}</ref> |rev3 = MusicHound |rev3Score = 4/5<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holtje |first1=Steve |last2=Lee |first2=Nancy Ann |title=MusicHound: The Essential Album Guide |publisher=Schirmer |year=1998 |pages=1176 }}</ref> |rev4 = ''Penguin Guide to Jazz'' |rev4Score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2006 |pages=1356 }}</ref> |rev5 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' |rev5Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 206 }}</ref> }}
'''''Soulville''''' is a 1957 album by swing tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, recording a session from October 15, 1957, which Webster played with the Oscar Peterson Trio and accompanied by Stan Levey.
==Reception== This session is described by AllMusic as "one of the highlights" of Webster's "golden '50s run".<ref name="amg">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r149987}}</ref> The album was reissued in the early 1990s on CD with three bonus tracks, which include rare recordings of Webster playing piano.<ref>[http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=disc&src=art&pid=10767 Soulville] Verve Music Group. Accessed September 18, 2007.</ref> When it was remastered in 24-bit for a 2003 edition, additional photographs and new liner notes were also included.<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r629576|label=Soulville (Bonus Tracks)}}</ref>
==Track listing== #"Soulville" (Ben Webster) – 8:03 #"Late Date" (Webster) – 7:13 #"Time on My Hands" (Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Vincent Youmans) – 4:16 #"Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 8:26 #"Where Are You?" (Lew Pollack, Lou Davis) – 4:41 #"Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:29 #"Ill Wind (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:30
===Bonus tracks=== #<li value=8>"Who?" (Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 2:56 #"Boogie Woogie" (Webster) – 3:06 #"Roses of Picardy" (Frederick E. Weatherly, Haydn Wood) – 2:05
==Personnel==
===Performance=== *Ray Brown – bass *Herb Ellis – guitar *Stan Levey – drums *Oscar Peterson – piano *Ben Webster – tenor saxophone, piano on the bonus tracks
===Production=== *Norman Granz – producer *Nat Hentoff – original liner notes *Ellie Hughes – design *Tom Hughes – design *Seth Rothstein – CD preparation *Tom "Curly" Ruff – digital remastering *Phil Schaap – re-issue liner notes *Richard Seidel – CD preparation *Phil Stern – photography
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== External links == * {{Discogs master|249088|type=album}}
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Category:Ben Webster albums Category:1957 albums Category:Albums produced by Norman Granz Category:Verve Records albums