Watch Your Step Doug Webb

• 1 The Webb We Weave 06:07
• 2 Five From Horace 05:40
• 3 Lullaby For James 04:28
• 4 For Sonny 04:58
• 5 Watch Your Step 06:44
• 6 I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face 03:26
• 7 She's Funny That Way 03:34
• 8 Body & Soul 02:50
• 9 Calvin Is Here 05:05
• 10 Good Morning Heartache 04:34
• 11 Trapped In The Webb 05:26
• 12 I Didn’t Know About You 06:55
• Total Runtime 59:47

Info for Watch Your Step

This session captures a group of first-rate musicians coming together in the studio and simply playing. Leading the date is tenor saxophonist Doug Webb, a musician admired for his big sound, sense of swing, and no-nonsense approach to improvisation. Doug has the kind of presence that immediately centers the music. He draws from the tradition but never sounds tied to it. His playing is confident, soulful, and full of personality. Joining him is an outstanding rhythm section: Brian Charette on organ, Dave Sikula on guitar, and John Lee on drums.

Brian Charette has long been one of the most respected organists on the scene, and it is easy to hear why. He is constantly shaping the music. He can do it all on the organ: play greasy, gutbucket blues in the tradition of Jack McDuff, play bebop, or move into more modern territory and stretch out.

What makes Watch Your Step special is the looseness of the session. Nothing feels forced. Nothing feels overworked. In jazz, too much preparation can sometimes take away the very thing that makes the music exciting. When every detail is settled beforehand, there is less room for surprise, risk, and real interaction.

"This album is a protein rich diet in a high carb world of anemic posers. Dig in with a sharp knife." (George W. Harris, jazzweekly.com)

Doug Webb, tenor saxophone
Brian Charette, Hammond organ
Dave Sikula, guitar
John Lee, drums
Cory Weeds, tenor saxophone (track 5)

Recorded at Monarch Studios, Vancouver, BC on December 7th, 2025
Engineered Mixed and Mastered by Sheldon Zaharko
Produced by Cory Weeds & Doug Webb
Executive Producer: Cory Weeds

Doug Webb
was born in Chicago and moved to California at the age of 3. He is a graduate of Edison high school in Huntington Beach, CA and received a Bachelor of Music from Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He began playing the clarinet at the age of 8 and added saxophone and flute at 15. He lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife Alex and his son, Ryan.

Over his career Webb has played and recorded with such notable talents as Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Sal Marquez, Stanley Clarke, Quincy Jones, Mat Marucci, Kyle Eastwood, Billy Childs, Rod Stewart, Carly Simon, Art Davis, Kenny Rogers, Bonnie Raitt, Pancho Sanchez and Vikki Carr. He played with the house band for the Dennis Miller TV show, the Jimmy Cleveland orchestra and continues to tour with the Doc Severinsen big band. He has recorded music for hundreds of movies and television programs. He solos on the sound track for Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby and Jersey Boys. Webb has been featured on hundreds of recordings.

Doug plays.... soprillo, sopranino, C soprano, soprano, slide soprano, swanee, saxello, F mezzo soprano, alto, stritch, C melody, tenor, straight tenor, baritone, bass, cortrabass and tubax saxophones... piccolo, Eb, Db, C, G, bass and contrabass flutes..and almost every size ever made of every other woodwind listed in wikipedia under woodwinds...including sarrusophones and renaissance and baroque woodwinds, double reeds...14 sizes of clarinets...and ethnic woodwinds from every region of the world.

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