The late Benny Golson was rare in jazz. Among his many gifts were original songs with catchy melodies, glamorous harmony and romantic sophistication, His improvisational style was both fluid and ...

The highlight is Golson’s “Stablemates” – in fact, two versions, including an eight-minute take with fantastic blowing by Golson and Lee Morgan. I have hundreds of jazz CDs. I'm a huge fan of bebop, ...

NEW YORK – Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as “Killer Joe” and “Along Came Betty," has died. He was 95. Golson died Saturday at his home in Manhattan after ...

Benny Golson is one sublime composer and tenor saxophonist. For too long, Benny (who turns 80 on Sunday) has been unfairly pegged as a glossy Los Angeles artist whose music is more closely identified ...

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 ...

At age eighty-seven, saxophonist Benny Golson is one of the last surviving links to the Golden Age of modern jazz, ushered in by the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke ...

Philadelphia has always been a cradle for outstanding jazz talent, though when it comes to durability surely none can match Benny Golson, who began playing seventy years ago. At 87, Golson—an NEA Jazz ...

Up Jumped Spring; Stablemates; Talk Intro; Tiny Capers; Talk Intro; I Remember Clifford; For Old Time’s Sake; Whisper Not; Gypsy Jingle Jangle. “Saxophonist/composer Benny Golson, supported by ...

Killer Joe (Benny Golson); Work Song (Nat Adderley); Body and Soul * (Johnny Green); St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins); Syeeda’s Song Flute (John Coltrane); Mood Indigo; Along Came Betty; Mack The Knife ...

Benny Golson celebrates his 80th birthday today. At the same time, he releases a new CD with a band in the mold of the Jazztet that he and Art Farmer led beginning in 1960.

Benny Golson during the Capital Jazz Festival, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England, July 1982. Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer, died on Saturday, Sept. 21, at his home in Manhattan. He ...