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Benny Golson's Terminal 1 is a commemorative album to Steven Spielberg's latest film ... Terminal 1 contains the classic standard "Sweet Georgia Brown" and also features a cover of Dave Brubeck's "In ...
Looking back past the rule of Parliament to the age of Horace Silver, Benny Golson’s That's Funky ... of Satchmo’s muted melodies. Tributes to Golson’s Jazz Messenger cohorts include a punchy cover of ...
After the event, Benny reminded me that, in 1957, I produced the album "Benny Golson's New York Jazz Scene" for Contemporary Records, his first as the leader of his Jazztet. Back then, as now in ...
This year, at the age of 87, he released a new album called “Horizon Ahead.” Golson was born in Philadelphia in 1929 and has played in the bands of Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey. He ...
Golson wrote or cowrote four of the six tracks on "Moanin'," a celebrated 1958 album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. All five of the tunes on trumpeter Lee Morgan's 1957 album "Lee Morgan ...
We're diving deep this week into the life and music of Benny Golson with our Classic Album 'The Other Side of Benny Golson.' A prolific songwriter - perhaps most often encountered in the ever ...
VETERAN tenorist Golson has put together this album to commemorate his cameo appearance in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal. The title track with its shifting rhythms and textures successfully ...
Benny Golson in 2012 ... had been looking for new material. Mr. Golson wrote or co-wrote four of the six tracks on “Moanin’,” a celebrated 1958 album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.