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News: Recording

Benny Golson Releases New Album on Concord Jazz

January 20, 2009

The new album from sax legend and Grammy Lifetime Achievement award winner Benny Golson hits stores this week via Concord Jazz (CD & digital). New Time, New ‘Tet is Golson’s first new studio recording in five years and elaborates the traditional jazztet concept; combining Golson’s new compositions with standard jazz repertoire. The ...

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New Time New Tet

By Benny Golson

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: Grove's Groove; Airegin; Dream to Dream; Whisper Not; Epistrophy; L'Adieu; Love Me in a Special Way; Gypsy Jungle; Verdi's Voice; Uptown Afterburn.

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Article: Profile

Curtis Fuller: Motor City Messenger

by Russ Musto
December 1, 2008

The most recorded jazz trombonist of his lifetime, Curtis Fuller's illustrious career spans six decades and includes tenures with many of the greatest names in this music. Born Dec. 15th, 1934 in Detroit, Fuller was orphaned at an early age, but found family in the close-knit jazz community of the musically fertile Motor City. He first ...

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Benny Golson: Along Came Benny

by Greg Thomas
August 21, 2008

Benny Golson, tenor saxophone stylist and jazz composer of first rank, refuses to rest on his laurels. At almost 80, he's an elder statesman of jazz who could easily cruise and live off the royalties of “I Remember Clifford," “Whisper Not," “Along Came Betty" and others among his 300 compositions. But such a notion is anathema ...

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Article: Live Review

Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller at the Kennedy Center

by Erik R. Quick
March 25, 2007

Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller Jazz in Our Time Series The Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage Washington D. C. March 7, 2007The Washington, DC metropolitan area is a curious town for the avid jazz listener. Only one club attracts nationally known musicians on a nightly basis, and ...

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Article: Wide Open Jazz and Beyond

Benny Golson

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

You know it's easy to get overlooked in the jazz world today. There are too many musicians on the scene from all over the world. The market is flooded with more new CD's than we can really handle and every day there are dozens of classic reissues showing up to add to the competition. Often if ...

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The Complete Argo / Mercury Art Farmer / Benny Golson / Jazztet Sessions

By Art Farmer

Label: Mosaic Records (2)
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc I: The Jazztet; Serenata; It Ain't Necessarily So; Avalon; I Remember Clifford; Blues March; It's All Right With Me; Park Avenue Petite; Mox Nix; Easy Living; Killer Joe; The Cool One; Blues On Down; Hi-Fly; My Funny Valentine; Disc II: The Jazztet; Wonder Why; Con Alma; Lament; Bean Bag; Five Spot After Dark; Bel; Milano; Django; New York 19; Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West; Odds Against Tomorrow; Disc III: The Jazztet; Junction; Farmer's Market; Darn That Dream; Shutterbug; 'Round Midnight; A November Afternoon; Tonk; Rue Prevail; Richie's Dilemma; Whisper Not; Tonk (45 Take); Disc IV: The Jazztet; Just In Time; Ruby, My Dear; In Love In Vain; Sonny's Back; Sonny's Back (45 Take); Space Station; Domino; Another Git Together; Along Came Betty; This Nearly Was Mine; Reggie; Another Git Together (45 Take); Disc V: The Art Farmer Quartets; So Beats My Heart For You; Goodbye, Old Girl; Who Cares?; Out Of The Past; Younger Than Springtime; The Best Thing For You Is Me; I'm A Fool To Want You; That Ole Devil Called Love; Punsu; The Day After; Lullaby Of The Leaves; Kayin'; Tonk; Blue Room; Change Partners; Nobody's Heart; Disc VI: The Benny Golson Quartets; How Am I To Know?; The Masquerade Is Over; Dear Kathy; Three Little Words; Turning Point; Stella By Starlight; Alone Together; Sock Cha; Mad About The Boy; Just By Myself; Shades Of Stein; My Romance; Just In Time; Disc VII: The Ensembles; You're My Thrill; My Heart Belongs To Daddy; The Best Thing For You Is Me; Impromtune; Little Karin; Swing It; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Out Of This World; The Touch; Time; Street Of Dreams; Rain Check; Rue Prevail; The Sweetest Sounds; My Romance; Fly Me To The Moon; Naima; Ruby;

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Terminal 1

By Benny Golson

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: Terminal 1: Killer Joe; Caribbean Drifting; Park Avenue Petite; Blues March; Sweet Georgia Brown; Cherry; In Your Own Sweet Way; Touch Me Lightly.

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Article: Album Review

Benny Golson: Terminal 1

Read "Terminal 1" reviewed by Aaron Rogers

by Aaron Rogers
July 17, 2004

Benny Golson's Terminal 1 is a commemorative album to Steven Spielberg's latest film, The Terminal, in which Golson plays himself: a legendary jazz saxophonist from whom Tom Hanks' character is trying to get an autograph. On Terminal 1, 75-year-old hard-bopper Golson looks and plays just as fresh as he did in his younger days with Art ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Benny Golson: Terminal 1

by Eric J. Iannelli
June 8, 2004

Benny Golson Terminal 1 Concord 2004 Benny Golson is indisputably a fine tenor saxophonist, but at the end of his already long career he will probably be best remembered for the quality and breadth of his songwriting. His compositions have run the gamut, from scores for television and ...