Remembering Ben Webster on his birthday! 🎷 Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 - September 20, 1973), was a tenor saxophonist from Kansas City, considered one of the most important tenors of the swing era along with Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. He was a fundamental member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the early 1940s, a formation known as the "Blanton-Webster Band", due to the presence of Ben and bassist Jimmy Blanton. Initiated in music by his mother on the piano and violin, he