Search - Artist/Band: Benny Golson

• Name: Benny Golson
• Birthday: 01/25/1929
• Birth Place: Philadelphia, PA
• Decades Active: 1950,1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz
• Moods: Exuberant, Freewheeling, Intimate, Laid-Back/Mellow, Amiable/Good-Natured, Complex, Earthy, Elegant, Refined/Mannered, Sophisticated, Confident, Dramatic, Energetic, Passionate, Playful, Rollicking, Stylish

Title	Release
Complete 1957-1958	08/04/2009
New Time, New 'Tet	01/20/2009
The Best of Benny Golson	01/20/2009
The Many Moods of Benny Golson	2007
Benny Golson With Wynton Kelly/Tommy Flanagan	09/04/2006
The Masquerade Is Over	11/15/2005
Terminal 1 W	06/22/2004
Legend of Jazz Club	05/24/2004
Brandenburg	05/16/2001
One Day, Forever WA	02/27/2001
That's Funky	02/22/2000
This Is for You, John	01/01/2000
Brown Immortal	2000
Tenor Legacy	06/16/1998
Remembering Clifford	05/19/1998
Walkin'	1997
California Message WA	10/01/1995
Real Time	08/13/1992
Domingo WA	1992
I Remember Miles	1992
Time Speaks WA	05/1991
Up Jump Spring	1990
Stardust WA	1987
Turn In, Turn on to the Hippest Commercials of the Sixties	04/12/1967
Stockholm Sojourn WA	07/14/1964
Free WA	12/26/1962
Turning Point	1962
Take a Number from 1 to 10	1961
Gettin' With It WA	12/23/1959
Winchester Special WA	09/25/1959
Groovin' with Golson	08/28/1959
Gone with Golson WA	06/20/1959
Benny Golson and the Philadelphians	11/17/1958
The Other Side of Benny Golson WA	11/12/1958
Benny Golson in Paris	1958
The Modern Touch	1958

Benny Golson is a talented composer/arranger whose tenor playing has continued to evolve with time. After attending Howard University (1947-1950) he worked in Philadelphia with Bull Moose Jackson's R&B band (1951) at a time when it included one of his writing influences, Tadd Dameron on piano. Golson played with Dameron for a period in 1953, followed by stints with Lionel Hampton (1953-1954), and Johnny Hodges and Earl Bostic (1954-1956). He came to prominence while with Dizzy Gillespie's globetrotting big band (1956-1958), as much for his writing as for his tenor playing (the latter was most influenced by Don Byas and Lucky Thompson). Golson wrote such standards as "I Remember Clifford" (for the late Clifford Brown), "Killer Joe," "Stablemates," "Whisper Not," "Along Came Betty," and "Blues March" during 1956-1960. His stay with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1958-1959) was significant, and during 1959-1962 he co-led the Jazztet with Art Farmer. From that point on Golson gradually drifted away from jazz and concentrated more on working in the studios and with orchestras including spending a couple of years in Europe (1964-1966). When Golson returned to active playing in 1977, his tone had hardened and sounded much closer to Archie Shepp than to Don Byas. Other than an unfortunate commercial effort for Columbia in 1977, Golson has recorded consistently rewarding albums (many for Japanese labels) since that time including a reunion with Art Farmer and Curtis Fuller in a new Jazztet. Through the years he has recorded as a leader for Contemporary, Riverside, United Artists, New Jazz, Argo, Mercury, and Dreyfus among others. Returning once again to the spirit of the original Jazztet, Golson released New Time, New 'Tet on Concord Records in 2009. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide