abstract:Donald Colin Webster, known as Ben Webster (1930–1997) was a venture capitalist who started Helix Investments in 1968, making investments into dozens of early stage companies, including Corel, Geac, Mitel, and OpenText. He also founded the Toronto Society of Psychical Research and the New Horizons Foundation which was responsible for physic experiments a Princeton University.
They included Benny Goodman on clarinet, Teddy Wilson on piano, Roy Eldridge on trumpet and Ben Webster on saxophone.
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By the time he was 19, Holland was playing with the house band at Ronnie Scott's, a legendary jazz club in London, where he got to play with BenWebster and Coleman Hawkins.
Most daringly, there is a performance by another tenor giant, BenWebster, which is strictly speaking not a vocal at all, but a recording of Webster rehearsing a big band in one of his own compositions.
Walker's injury, after he went down awkwardly in a tackle with Senior, was a cruel blow with Shaun Briscoe, Ben Galea, Scott Murrell, Ben Cockayne and Jake Webster already absent for the Robins.